Hubble telescope captures close-up image of comet Neowise that proves it survived its journey around the sun without breaking up Neowise is the brightest comet visible in the northern skies since Hale-Bopp It passed closest to the Sun — at 27 million miles’ distance — on July 3, 2020 NASA have now released shots of … Read more
NASA captures summer on Saturn in an amazing new snapshot from the Hubble Space Telescope The newly-released image was taken by the orbiting observatory on July 4, 2020 The gas giant’s northern hemisphere appears redder in the summer sunlight Meanwhile, its ring are bright like ‘freshly fallen snow’ and the south pole is blue Two of the … Read more
NASA delays launch of James Webb Telescope AGAIN pushing the Hubble successor’s target date back by seven months due to coronavirus and ‘technical challenges’ NASA’s James Webb telescope will be delayed by seven months It now has an estimated launch date of October 31st, 2021 Technical challenges are the coronavirus pandemic are to blame, says … Read more
Amazing images of the butterfly and the Jewel Bug nebulae have been captured in unprecedented detail by the Hubble Space Telescope, according to NASA. These colourful regions of interstellar space are created thanks to ‘stars gone haywire’, throwing off jets and bubbles of hot gas at the end of their life. The new images show … Read more
Nancy Grace Roman was one of the first women to work at NASA and a central figures in the development of the Hubble Telescope. She was born in Nashville, Tennessee on May 16, 1925. As a child, she was drawn to the study of outer space.’I was just fascinated.’ Roman said in a short NASA … Read more
Nancy Grace Roman was one of the first women to work at NASA and a central figures in the development of the Hubble Telescope. She was born in Nashville, Tennessee on May 16, 1925. As a child, she was drawn to the study of outer space.’I was just fascinated.’ Roman said in a short NASA … Read more
The Hubble space telescope has captured the clearest images yet of comet ATLAS and found it has shattered into dozens of pieces each at least the size of a house. The comet was discovered by the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) robotic astronomical survey system in Hawaii in December 2019. It became incredibly bright … Read more
To mark its 30th anniversary the Hubble Space Telescope team have released a stunning new image captured by the satellite showing a vast star-forming region. Named the ‘tapestry of blazing starbirth’, the new image brings together the nebula NGC 2014 and its neighbour NGC 2020 – both about 163,000 light years from Earth. They are … Read more
An elusive mid-sized black hole that was tearing apart a wayward star has been spotted by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope. A team of astronomers found the stellar object – known as an ‘intermediate-mass black hole’ – 740 million light-years away using Hubble and X-ray observatories. Experts from the University of New Hampshire in … Read more
Hubble Space Telescope captures a spectacular image of a bright pink cloud of gas and dust where massive stars are being born 160,000 light years away from Earth The bright cloud is called LHA 120-N 150 and is in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy orbiting the Milky Way NASA says the pink cloud is a … Read more