Hubble

Hubble’s 20 Years: Time for 20/20 Vision

Note: To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, for ten days, Universe Today will feature highlights from…

15 years ago

Hubble: It Was Twenty Years Ago Today

That NASA sent the Hubble into space, to stay. The date was 24 April, 1990; "Liftoff of the Space Shuttle…

15 years ago

Hubble Captures Distorted Beauty of M66

[/caption] This isn't your basic spiral galaxy, but perhaps it used to be! Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys has captured…

15 years ago

Astronomers Begin Observing Hanny’s Voorwerp with the Hubble Space Telescope

[/caption] The green "blob" is Hanny's Voorwerp. Credit: Dan Herbert, Peter Smith, Matt Jarvis, Galaxy Zoo Team, Isaac Newton Telescope…

15 years ago

Mystery Object Found Orbiting Brown Dwarf

[/caption] Big planet or companion brown dwarf? Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Observatory, astronomers have discovered an…

15 years ago

Hubble Confirms Cosmic Acceleration with Weak Lensing

[/caption] Need more evidence that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating? Just look to the Hubble Space Telescope. An…

15 years ago

Review: Hubble 3-D IMAX

[/caption] I have seen the new Hubble 3-D IMAX movie twice now, and both times I was overcome with tears…

15 years ago

New Hubble Project Will Survey Beginnings of Cosmic Time

[/caption] An ambitious new project using the Hubble Space Telescope will allow astronomers to peer deep into the universe in…

15 years ago

Better Late Than Never: Dwarf Galaxies Finally Come Together

[/caption] Have you heard of 'living fossils'? The coelacanth, the ginko tree, the platypus, and several others are species alive…

15 years ago

Hubble Captures Double Aurorae Light Show on Saturn

In January and March 2009, researchers using Hubble took advantage of a rare opportunity to record Saturn when its rings…

15 years ago