Tag: hubble

How fast is the universe expanding? We may need to recalculate

by Mihai Andrei

July 17, 2019

It's one of the fundamental universal features -- and we're still struggling to understand it.

Hubble finds ‘smiley face’ drawn by galactic objects

by Tibi Puiu

November 6, 2018

NASA's space telescope was looking for new stars when it came across a happy accident.

NASA tries to fix Hubble problem by switching it off and on again

by Mihai Andrei

October 25, 2018

Hi, have you tried switching it off and on again?

How many galaxies are there?

by Mihai Andrei

May 25, 2018

Talk about a big count!

Hubble completes the most complete ultraviolet-light survey of nearby galaxies — and the photos are mind blowing

by Mihai Andrei

May 18, 2018

Talk about some mind-blowing images!

Five Reasons Why We Should be Exploring Space

by Contributing Author

January 12, 2018

Why bother about space in the first place? Well, here's why.

A patch of the sky captured by the Hubble Space Telescope shows thousands of galaxies stretched over billions of light years. Only 10 percent of galaxies are observable with telescopes, according to the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS).

Latest census finds ten times more galaxies in the Universe — that’s nearly two trillion

by Dragos Mitrica

October 14, 2016

More mind-boggling than ever.

The Universe is expanding faster than we thought, new Hubble study finds

by Mihai Andrei

June 3, 2016

Astronomers working with the Hubble telescope have discovered that the Universe is expanding 5-9% faster than expected, and this is ...

NASA snaps beautiful picture of Mars as it inches over towards Earth

by Alexandru Micu

May 20, 2016

NASA astronomers captured a beautiful image of Mars on May 12, when the planet was just 50 million miles away ...

Hubble captures the death of a star, offering a glimpse of our sun’s final days

by Alexandru Micu

March 10, 2016 - Updated on March 11, 2016

A spectacular image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) gives us a glimpse into ...

Hubble’s ‘heir’ is coming together

by Mihai Andrei

January 26, 2016

NASA is very close to reaching a milestone in the construction of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Hubble's successor ...

3D map of the Pillars of Creation shows the same shaping forces will also destroy them

by Tibi Puiu

April 30, 2015

Using the MUSE instrument aboard ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have made a three dimensional view of the famous ...

Most detailed picture EVER of a new planet being born

by Tibi Puiu

November 6, 2014

Some 450 light-years away in the constellation Taurus, a new planet is being born and astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...

Stunning Horsehead nebula imaged in infrared

by Tibi Puiu

April 22, 2013

Two fantastic space telescopes, Hubble and ESA's Herschel, have teamed up to image one of the most popular astronomical sights ...

Hubble takes brilliant picture of young star population in elderly company

by Mihai Andrei

November 6, 2012

The great pics from Hubble just never end! This time, the brave telescope offered an impressive view of the center ...

Keep your children close – zombie planet roams once more

by Mihai Andrei

October 26, 2012

The general consensus was that a star called Fomalhaut doesn't host any planet. But astronomers, the thorough people they are, ...

Quasars “snack” regularly, instead of “feasting in one gulp”

by Tibi Puiu

June 20, 2012

[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 ...