Hubble Space Telescope
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…
Bad News. Planets Orbiting Red Dwarfs Might not have the Raw Materials for Life
New research from the Hubble Space Telescope and the ESO's Very Large Telescope is dampening some of the enthusiasm in…
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…
You’re Looking at an Actual Image of a White Dwarf Feeding on Material from a Larger Red Giant, 650 Light Years from Earth.
The SPHERE planet-hunting instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope captured this image of a white dwarf feeding…
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…
Astronomers Finally Spot the Type of Star That Leads to Type 1C Supernovae
Thanks to a recently-observed supernova in a distant galaxy, astronomers have been able to find what type of star leads…
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…
How Hubble Unlocked the Universe
As engineers and technicians work diligently to diagnose and develop a solution (at best) or work around (at worst) the…
Until We Get Another Mission at Saturn, We’re Going to Have to Make Do with these Pictures Taken by Hubble
A new Hubble image of Saturn and six of its Moons reminds us how visually stunning Saturn is.
This Beautiful Photo of Galaxy NGC 3981 was Taken by the Most Powerful Telescope in the World for no Scientific Reason at all. Just Because it’s Pretty
When the ESO's Very Large Telescope can't pursue its science objectives, it spends its time capturing stunning image of fascinating…