12 July 2019
Hubble uncovers black hole that shouldn't exist
...Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed an unexpected thin disc of ... deep inside this disc, the researchers used the Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) instrument. This diagnostic tool divides the light...
28 July 2021
Hubble helps astronomers find first evidence of water vapour at Ganymede
... Hubble observations from the last two decades to find this evidence of water vapour. In 1998, Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph took the first ultraviolet (UV) images of Ganymede, which revealed colorful ribbons of electrified gas called...
29 August 2016
Dust is the key to producing complex organic molecules in space
... they produced via reactions on the surface of interstellar dust grains? Using the Green Bank Telescope, the IRAM 30m millimetre radio telescope and the Submillimeter Array, a team of scientists based in Italy have analysed spectra from...
07 December 2016
Dark matter not as clumpy as previously thought
...nature of dark matter have used ESO's VLT Survey Telescope (VST) in Chile to observe five patches of ... missions such as the Euclid satellite and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will allow us to repeat these measurements and better understand what ...
24 March 2017
Gravitational waves expel black hole from galaxy centre
...ripples in space-time. By using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers have found that a quasar,... object, the researchers are hoping to use other telescopes such as the Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (...
12 May 2017
Warm Neptune with primitive atmosphere discovered
... of Exeter and one of the researchers on the project. Combining observations from NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, the team used data from transits – occasions when the planet passed in front of its host star...
