Telescopes
Biofluorescence shining light on the search for alien life
Worlds with a fluorescent glow may indicate signs of alien life.
‘Baby’ planet two to three times the size of Jupiter discovered
Baby planet, doo doo doo doo doo doo...
‘Hidden’ ancient galaxies discovery may redefine our understanding of the Universe
The wealth of newly discovered ancient galaxies suggests that scientists may have to refine their model of the universe.
Einstein’s General Relativity passes the test at the centre of our Galaxy
A brave star and a supermassive black hole confirm Einstein's theory of general relativity.
Why the SpaceX satellite fleet could spell major headaches for astronomers
It's an unexpected side effect of a useful plan.
Universe has 2 trillion galaxies, 20 times more than we thought, new study claims
We may have dramatically underestimated what lies in the Universe.
NASA snaps beautiful picture of Mars as it inches over towards Earth
NASA astronomers captured a beautiful image of Mars on May 12, when the planet was just 50 million miles away from Earth. Bright snow-capped polar regions and rolling clouds above...
Hubble captures the death of a star, offering a glimpse of our sun’s final days
A spectacular image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) gives us a glimpse into how the Sun will look at its death.
Hubble’s ‘heir’ is coming together
NASA is very close to reaching a milestone in the construction of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Hubble's successor that will be launched in 2018.
Astronomers discover huge hydrogen cloud around exoplanet
Astronomers using the Hubble telescope have identified a warm Neptune-sized planet that is "bleeding" a huge hydrogen cloud - thus increasing the odds of finding liquid oceans on gas giants.
New images of Tarantula Nebula may help refine star formation theory
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently completed one of its most thorough and ambitious mozaic projectes. Astronomers at Hubble, stitched together some 438 separate images, both in visible and infra-red light,...
Universe at your fingertips – 3D prints of Hubble photos let the blind ‘see’
NGC 609 is one of the many small galactic star clusters located in the Milky Way in Cassiopia. It shines at magnitude 11.0, is 4 arc...
Hubble goes farther than ever before: images reveal deepest view of the Universe yet
Abell 2744, Pandora's Cluster. Photo: : NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, and the HFF Team. Huge resolution photo here. This year Hubble...
The stars of the densest galaxy discovered thus far are 25 times closer than in Milky Way
This galaxy weighs more than 200 million suns, over half of which is concentrated within a radius of just 80 light years. (c) NASA/CXC/MSU/J.Strader et al,...
Farthest supernova discovered by Hubble helps unravel Universe secrets
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have come across the farthest supernova of its type found thus far - a type Ia supernova which exploded some 10 billion years ago. The discovery...
Hubble takes brilliant picture of young star population in elderly company
The great pics from Hubble just never end! This time, the brave telescope offered an impressive view of the center of globular cluster NGC 6362. The image of this spherical...
Keep your children close – zombie planet roams once more
The general consensus was that a star called Fomalhaut doesn't host any planet. But astronomers, the thorough people they are, decided to take another look at it using the Hubble...
Universe expansion speed measured better than ever
The universe is expanding - fast. Researchers had a pretty good idea how fast, but now, they measured in even greater detail: it is expanding at a rate of 74.3...
Faint galaxy sheds light on the dawn of the Universe – many more to be found
The first galaxies formed very fast after the Big Bang - in cosmic time, that is. It's estimated that the earliest ones appeared some 500 million years after the Big...
Quasars “snack” regularly, instead of “feasting in one gulp”
[caption id="attachment_13290" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Artist's rendering of ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun. (c) ESO/M....
