Hubble

The Hubble Space Telescope is a Powerful Science Instrument Despite its Age

This Hubble image shows a supernova named SN 2022aajn in a distant galaxy about 600 million light-years away with the…

2 weeks ago

Hubble Shows Young Stars Shaping Their Surroundings in the Orion Nebula

Orion the Hunter, resplendent in the northern hemisphere's night sky in winter, is more than an easily identified constellation. It's…

4 weeks ago

Hubble Takes a 2.5 Gigapixel Image of Andromeda

The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky Way. When…

4 weeks ago

The JWST Looked Over the Hubble’s Shoulder and Confirmed that the Universe is Expanding Faster

It's axiomatic that the Universe is expanding. However, the rate of expansion hasn't remained the same. It appears that the…

2 months ago

Hubble Gets its Best Look At the First Quasar

The term quasar comes from quasi-stellar objects, a name that reflected our uncertainty about their nature. The first quasars were…

2 months ago

Hubble and Webb are the Dream Team. Don't Break Them Up

Many people think of the James Webb Space Telescope as a sort of Hubble 2. They understand that the Hubble…

4 months ago

Jets From Supermassive Black Holes Create New Stars Along Their Trajectory

Since the 1970s, astronomers have observed that supermassive black holes (SMBHs) reside at the centers of most massive galaxies. In…

5 months ago

The Early Universe Had a Lot of Black Holes

The Hubble Deep Field and its successor, the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field, showed us how vast our Universe is and how it teems with galaxies…

5 months ago

Massive Stars Shine in This Ultraviolet View From Hubble

Just outside the Milky Way Galaxy, roughly 210,000 light-years from Earth, there is the dwarf galaxy known as the Small…

6 months ago

Here’s Hubble’s First Image in its New Pointing Mode

This is probably what the demise of the Hubble Space Telescope was always going to look like: components failing one…

8 months ago