One of the most famous objects in space has been imaged by our most powerful telescopes, and now scientists have produced an amazing 3D visualization of The Pillars of Creation, revealing it in greater detail than ever before. Roughly 7,000 light years away from Earth is an immense cloud of dust and gas known as […]
In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope released images of the Pillars of Creation — stunning effervescent clouds of interstellar dust and gas, the place where stars are born. Now, combining data from Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA has released a gorgeous 3D visualization of the cosmic structures in both visible and infrared […]
The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a stunning new photo of infant stars nestled in a glowing cocoon of gas and dust. The bright clouds of dust and gas captured in the new Hubble photo represent a nebula, which is a dense interstellar region where new stars form. This particular nebula, known as RCW 7, […]
What it is: NGC 1546, a spiral galaxy Where it is: 50 million light-years away, in the Southern Hemisphere constellation Dorado When it was shared: June 18, 2024 Why it’s so special: This is the first image from the Hubble Space Telescope in its new pointing mode. The iconic observatory’s science operations were suspended in […]
The Hubble Space Telescope is back in action, having returned to science operations but now with just one operating gyroscope. And to prove it’s still got what it takes, the venerable observatory snapped a striking photo of the dusty spiral galaxy NGC 1546. Located about 50 million light-years away in the constellation of Dorado, the […]
NASA has released the fist galactic image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope’s new one-gyroscope pointing mode. An issue with one of the gyros took the telescope offline for several weeks. Photo by David Thilker (Johns Hopkins University)/ NASA, ESA, STSci June 19 (UPI) — NASA on Tuesday released a Hubble Space Telescope image captured […]
Imagine keeping a laser beam trained on a dime that’s 200 miles away. Now imagine doing that continuously for 24 hours, while riding a merry-go-round. Seem difficult? Well, that’s basically what the Hubble Space Telescope does. After months of technical issues, NASA announced June 4 that Hubble would shift into one-gyroscope mode. This essentially means […]
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have, for the first time ever, mapped the plasma “burps” of a feeding supermassive black hole-powered quasar that dwells relatively close to Earth. While supermassive black holes with masses millions or billions of times that of the sun are thought to dwell at the heart of all galaxies, not […]
The aging but tenacious Hubble Space Telescope has beamed back yet another stunning photo of a distant galaxy. Hubble‘s latest view captures the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3059, which lies about 57 million light-years from Earth. The photo, released on June 7, was taken in May using the space telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 instrument […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The Hubble Space Telescope will transition to a new way of operating that aims to prevent the space observatory from experiencing lapses in its ability to observe the universe, according to NASA officials. The storied telescope, […]
It’s been 34 years since the Hubble Space Telescope launched into the harsh and unforgiving environment of Earth orbit. It’s sitting about 320 miles (515 kilometers) above our planet right now, exposed to solar radiation, freezing temperatures and micrometeoroid impacts while delivering breathtaking and textbook-altering images of the universe to us. Thirty-four years under that […]
The Hubble Space Telescope continues to show signs of its advanced age. Late last month, the iconic observatory went into a protective “safe mode” after detecting anomalous readings from a gyroscope, a device that helps mission team members point Hubble toward its cosmic targets. NASA officials announced today (June 4) that the misbehaving hardware is […]