Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble Repairman to Lead Space Telescope Science Institute

Self proclaimed "Hubble Hugger" and telescope repairman Dr. John Grunsfeld has been appointed Deputy Director of the Space Telescope Science…

14 years ago

Blue Stragglers Can Be Either Vampires or Stellar Bad-Boys

Messier 30, from HST's Advanced Camera for Surveys. Credit: NASA, ESA and Francesco Ferraro (University of Bologna Blue stragglers are…

14 years ago

Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen

Artists impression of a small KBO detected by Hubble as it transited a star. Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon…

14 years ago

Incredible New Hubble Image is Full of Stars!

A brand new Hubble image from Wide Field Camera 3 shows the most detailed view of the largest stellar nursery…

14 years ago

Hubble Takes a New “Deep Field” Image with Wide Field Camera 3

Hubble's latest image is another stunner -- and just look at all the galaxies! Hubble has produced a new version…

14 years ago

Pillars of Creation

[/caption] The pillars of creation are a part of the emission nebula, or H II region, M16 (also called the…

14 years ago

Countdown to Christmas: Hubble Advent Calendar

This is way cooler than those chocolate filled advent calendars that you can buy at the grocery store (although arguably…

14 years ago

Hubble Sees Dazzling Dust in the Iris Nebula

[/caption] Another gorgeous image from Hubble! This close-up of NGC 7023, or the Iris Nebula, shows an area filled with…

14 years ago

Eta Carinae- A Naked Eye Enigma

[/caption] Eta Carinae is a beast of a star. At more than 100 solar masses and 4 million times the…

14 years ago

“X” Marks Puzzling Galactic Bulge

Looking at a galaxy edge-on provides astronomers the opportunity to study different aspects of galaxies than a face-on view offers.…

14 years ago