NASA is making significant progress on reviving the Hubble Space Telescope, which has been in safe mode since early November after the synchronization of messages that control its instruments were becoming lost.
Hubble was brought offline on October 25 after NASA scientists and engineers detected a loff of specific data synchronization messages. The team was […]. petapixel.com
Lead image credit: NASA US astronomers want a new space-based telescope to search for exoplanets, and perhaps the project can't come soon enough. The Hubble Space Telescope's scientific operations are on hold for the second time this year. dpreview.com »
2021-11-09 00:14
NASA has published a stunning image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope that shows a 'three-way gravitational tug-of-war between interacting galaxies. ' The galaxies in the show are in system Arp 195, a system featured in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, a list of the 'weirder and more wonderful galaxies in the universe. dpreview.com »
2021-08-05 19:46
NASA has published a stunning image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope that shows a 'three-way gravitational tug-of-war among interacting galaxies. ' The galaxies in the show are in system Arp 195, a system featured in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, a list of the 'weirder and more wonderful galaxies in the universe. dpreview.com »
2021-08-05 19:46
Credits: NASA, ESA, STScI To celebrate the 31st birthday of the Hubble space telescope NASA has released a stunning picture a giant star ‘waging a tug-of-war between gravity and radiation to avoid self-destruction’. dpreview.com »
2021-04-29 23:25
In 2015, the Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the Veil Nebula. NASA has revisited this image and applied new processing techniques, bringing out even finer details of the nebula. dpreview.com »
2021-04-05 23:13
Image credit: Caldwell 78 (NGC 6541). This is a star cluster roughly 22,000 light-years from Earth. It can be viewed from the southern hemisphere using binoculars. Image credit: NASA, ESA, and G. dpreview.com »
2020-12-21 17:22
Hubble turned 30 years old this month. Well, actually, the space telescope celebrated 30 years in orbit, but either way, NASA took the opportunity to celebrate this milestone by capturing a spectacular, never-before-scene view that they’re calling a “tapestry of blazing starbirth. petapixel.com »
2020-04-29 22:50
The aging Hubble Space Telescope has produced a new full portrait image of Jupiter, our Solar System’s stormy gas giant. NASA shared the image earlier this month, though it was captured by the space telescope on June 27. dpreview.com »
2019-08-30 18:58
NASA astronomers have created an ultimate stitched panorama of galaxies in the night sky using 7,500 individual photos shot through 16 years’ worth of exposures using the Hubble Space Telescope. petapixel.com »
2019-05-23 17:50
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope was deployed on April 25, 1990, so this week marked the 28th anniversary of the telescope providing humankind with breathtaking photos of deep space. To celebrate, NASA released this 30-second video that zooms into the Milky Way’s central bulge to a new photo just released of the Lagoon Nebula over 4,000 […] petapixel.com »
2018-04-26 21:05
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While vital to humanity's existence on Earth, the planet's atmosphere is a major nuisance for astronomers trying to learn more about what's beyond Earth. The cosmos would be much easier to study without the pesky atmosphere.
A Penn State-led research team has developed a flat, single-lens telescope that was able to capture clear images of the moon. Known as a metalens, it achieved far greater resolution and imaging distance than any metalens before it. [Read More]