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Hubble telescope’s bigger, more powerful successor to soar
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Hubble Space Telescope’s successor is a time-traveling wonder capable of peering back to within a hair’s breadth of the dawn of the universe. And it's finally on the brink of flight.It will be the biggest and most powerful astronomical observatory ever to leave the planet, elaborate in its design…
Hubble Measures Horizontal Winds in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
Using data from the WFC3/UVIS instrument on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has measured the horizontal winds in Jupiter’s most distinctive feature, the Great Red Spot. By analyzing the long-term data from the boundaries of the giant storm, known as the high-speed ring, they’ve found that the wind speed has…
Hubble finds dead galaxies in the early universe
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in northern Chile looked at the universe when it was 3 billion years old. The telescopes found six early, massive, ‘dead’ galaxies that are running on empty. Meanwhile, the galaxies have no fuel, i.e., cold hydrogen gas needed for star formation. The discovery of…
Hubble captured a monumentally energetic type of galaxy
NASA/ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope, using its Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), captured an image of a barred spiral galaxy called NGC 5728. The image beautifully showing the regions of NGC 5728 that are emitting visible and infrared light. Also known as the Seyfert galaxy, the NCG 5728 is a monumentally energetic type of galaxy. It…
Hubble Looks at Active Spiral Galaxy: NGC 5728
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image so far of a barred spiral galaxy called NGC 5728. This Hubble image shows the active barred spiral galaxy NGC 5728. The color image was made from separate exposures taken in the visible and infrared regions of the spectrum with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera…
More Than Meets the Eye: Hubble Misses Vast Amounts of Energy
Credit: ESA/Hubble, A. Riess et al., J. Greene Meet NGC 5728, a spiral galaxy around 130 million light-years from Earth. This image was captured using Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), which is extremely sensitive to visible and infrared light. Therefore, this image beautifully captures the regions of NGC 5728 that are emitting visible and…
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a sparkling starfield in the heart of the milky way. The image shows a densely packed, roughly spherical collection of stars. This sparkling starfield is a globular cluster ESO 520-21, also known as Palomar 6. The cluster is located near the center of the Milky Way in the constellation…
Hubble captures a cluster in the heart of the Milky Way
A sparkling starfield, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, contains the globular cluster ESO 520-21 (also known as Palomar 6). Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R. Cohen This sparkling starfield, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys,…