Hubble

Stealing Sedna

Turns out, our seemly placid star had a criminal youth of cosmic proportions. A recent study out from Leiden Observatory…

9 years ago

Distant Stellar Nurseries: This Time, in High Definition

This article is a guest post by Anna Ho, who is currently doing research on stars in the Milky Way…

10 years ago

Hubble Captures a Collision in a Black Hole’s “Death Star” Beam

Even the Empire's planet-blasting battle station has nothing compared to the immense energy being fired from the heart of NGC 3862, a supermassive black…

10 years ago

Ceres Bright Spots Sharpen But Questions Remain

The latest views of Ceres' enigmatic white spots are sharper and clearer, but it's obvious that Dawn will have to descend…

10 years ago

Andromeda and Milky Way Might Collide Sooner Than We Think

The merger of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxy won't happen for another 4 billion years, but the recent discovery of…

10 years ago

Hubble Telescope Celebrates 25 Years in Space With Spectacular New Image

Images from space don’t get any prettier than this. A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope was released today…

10 years ago

Gallery: Behind the Scenes Images of the Final Hubble Servicing Mission

Photographer Michael Soluri was granted unprecedented access to document the people and events behind the final Hubble Space Telescope Servicing…

10 years ago

Book Review: “Infinite Worlds: People & Places of Space Exploration” by Michael Soluri

On April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched from Kennedy Space Center into low Earth orbit. Hubble was…

10 years ago

How Can Space Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Light?

Cosmologists are intellectual time travelers. Looking back over billions of years, these scientists are able to trace the evolution of…

10 years ago

Sadly, There won’t be a LEGO Hubble Space Telescope

This week the official LEGO review board announced their newest official LEGO model kits that were chosen from fan-suggested ideas,…

10 years ago