When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. A drawing shows what the universe might look like when it’s less than 1 billion years old. | Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Schaller (for STScI) When NASA’s next great extraterrestrial observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, opens… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. A montage of new images with data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which turned 25 on July 23. | Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO It is truly the summer of cosmic anniversaries. Following the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing and Space.com’s… Read More »
Imagine pointing a laser beam at a penny 200 miles away. Now imagine riding the carousel and doing so for 24 hours straight. Does it seem difficult? In fact, this is what the Hubble Space Telescope does. After months of technical problems, NASA announced on June 4 that Hubble would switch to single gyro mode.… Read More »
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have mapped for the first time the plasma “burps” of a quasar powered by a feeding supermassive black hole living relatively close to Earth. While supermassive black holes with masses millions or billions of times that of the Sun are thought to be at the heart of all galaxies,… Read More »
What happened after the thermonuclear explosion? binary star System observed approximately 3,400 light-years away Hubble space telescope. HM Sagittae, or HM Sge for short, is a system known as the symbiotic system. white dwarf feeding on a friend red giant star. The stolen material forms an accretion disk orbiting the white dwarf. If too much… Read More »
It has been 34 years since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into the harsh and unforgiving environment of Earth orbit. It currently sits about 320 miles (515 kilometers) above our planet and is subject to solar radiation, freezing temperatures and micrometeoroid effects while delivering breathtaking and textbook-changing images. Universe to us. Thirty-four years under… Read More »
A problem with one of the Hubble Space Telescope’s three remaining gyroscopes, which are critical for aiming and locking on targets, prompted mission managers to switch to a backup control mode that will limit some observations but keep the iconic observatory operating well into the 2030s, officials said. Tuesday . “We still believe there is… Read More »
Tomorrow (June 4) we’ll get an update on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, and it could be a pretty big deal. On June 3, the agency announced that the Hubble Space Telescope team would hold a press conference about the observatory’s status at 4 pm EDT (2000 GMT) tomorrow. Specifically, officials said the purpose of this… Read More »
Astronomy has a bright future. The universe is revealed in minute detail with the current generation of large optical telescopes. close to the big bang. There is hope that mysteries will be solved dark matter And dark energy It will be resolved. Thousands outer planets has been discovered, and astronomers may be approaching the first… Read More »
NASA’s iconic Hubble observatory is still working on ideas that will keep it going for a long time, and maybe even longer; but these proposals may face uphill battles. The Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, has been serviced five times by astronauts and is still in good condition. However, the telescope is aging and… Read More »