Hubble
Perfect Example of a Barred Spiral Galaxy, Seen Face On. This is What Our Milky Way Might Look Like
The Hubble Space Telescope has given us a beautiful image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 7773. This is a…
Why do Some Hubble Images Have That Chunk Taken Out of the Corner?
Great question! The answer has to do with Hubble's history. It's easy to forget that the Hubble has been in…
16 Years of Hubble Images Come Together in this one Picture Containing 265,000 Galaxies
The Hubble Legacy Field, the result of 16 years of observations and the most detailed image of our Universe, has…
Hubble Shows off the Atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune
New images from Hubble have shown some interesting seasonal developments on Neptune and Uranus
Astronomers Process Hubble’s Deepest Image to get Even More Data, and Show that Some Galaxies are Twice as big as Previously Believed
It allowed us to spot auroras on Saturn and planets orbiting distant suns. It permitted astronomers to see galaxies in…
Quasars with a Double-Image Gravitational Lens Could Help Finally Figure out how Fast the Universe is Expanding
How fast is the Universe expanding? That's a question that astronomers haven't been able to answer accurately. They have a…
Uh oh, Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 is Down
On January 8th, an important piece of equipment on the Hubble Space Telescope went down. The Wide Field Camera 3…
Check out this Amazing Picture of the Triangulum Galaxy by Hubble.
To the unaided eye, the Triangulum Galaxy is just a smudge in the night sky. But it's a smudge that…
Hubble’s First Picture After Returning to Service. The Telescope is Fully Operational Again with Three Working Gyros
The Hubble Space Telescope is a hero in the astronomy world. And when it suffered a malfunctioning gyro on October…
Yes! Hubble is Back in Operation
After a malfunction with one of its gyros placed it in safe mode, NASA has announced that Hubble is now…