Hubble
Gaze Into the Heart of a Grand Spiral Galaxy
Here’s Hubble doing what Hubble does best. Some of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most famous and stunning images are of…
Scouring Through old Hubble Images Turned up 1,000 new Asteroids
Researchers have found over 1,700 asteroid trails in archived Hubble data from the last 20 years. While many of the…
Hubble has Characterized 25 Hot Jupiters. Here’s What we Know so far
Hot Jupiters are giant exoplanets – even more massive than Jupiter – but they orbit closer to their star than…
Hubble Checks the Weather on Hot Jupiters. Forecast: 100% Chance of Hellish Conditions
While the Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 32 years in orbit, like a fine wine, it has only gotten better with…
Here are All of Hubble’s Observations in One Picture
Over the past 32 years, Hubble has made about 1.4 million observations of our Universe. Physicist Casey Handmer was curious…
An Ancestor of Supermassive Black Holes, Found at Cosmic Dawn
Using Hubble data, an international team of researchers has spotted what could be a primordial ancestor to supermassive black holes…
Hubble Confirms Comet C/2014 UN271 is an Absolute Unit, Astronomically Speaking
It’s official. Comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) has the largest nucleus ever seen in a comet. The gargantuan comet was discovered…
A New Record! Hubble Detects an Individual Star From a Time When the Universe Was Less Than a Billion Years Old
A star that sounds as if it came from "The Lord of the Rings" now marks one of the Hubble…
Hubble is Fully Operational Once Again
After suffering a technical glitch and going into sleep mode for the second time this year, Hubble is once again…
Colliding Gases at the Heart of the Running Man Nebula
New images of the Running Man Nebula taken by Hubble provide insight into how young stars and debris disks are…