Hubble
Hubble Telescope Spots Another Moon Around Pluto
[/caption] From a NASA press release: Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf…
Hubble’s New Views of Neptune
[/caption] To celebrate the first complete orbit of the planet Neptue since its discovery in 1846, the Hubble Space Telescope…
Hubble: One in a Million
For those of you bummed that Hubble's one millionth observation didn't include an eye-popping image, Daniel Pendick from the Geeked…
One Million Observations Now in the Books for Hubble Telescope
[/caption] After 21 years in orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope has reached an historic milestone: the venerable HST has made…
A Four Cluster Pile-Up
[/caption] Abell 2744, shown above in a composite of images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the ESO's Very Large Telescope…
Black Hole Devours Star and Hurls Energy Across 3.8 Billion Light Years
[/caption] Engaging the Hubble Space Telescope, Swift satellite and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers at the University of Warwick were…
Hubble’s Stunning New View of Centaurus A
[/caption] From a HubbleSite press release: Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the…
Globular Clusters Are Real Oddballs
[/caption] Hanging onto the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy like cockle burs on a shaggy dog's coat, globular clusters…
Dead Galaxy? Don’t Think So.
[/caption] There was a time when most astronomers concluded that elliptical galaxies were a lot like their globular clusters -…
Hubble Finds “Oddball” Stars in Milky Way Hub
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope to peer deep into the central bulge of our galaxy have found a population…