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 […]
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Iconic Crab Nebula shines in gorgeous James Webb Space Telescope views (video, image)
In July 1054, astronomers in China documented a “guest star” in the sky that shone as brightly as Jupiter for nearly a month before gradually fading into invisibility. That “star” was, in fact, a cloud of debris blown into space by a dying star roughly 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. In the 19th […]
New Crab Nebula image captured by James Webb Space Telescope offers unique glimpse at ‘unusual’ ancient structure
A new photo of the Crab Nebula, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, is helping scientists parse the composition and history of the ancient supernova remnant. The Crab Nebula, located in the constellation Taurus, is the result of a supernova explosion that was seen on Earth in 1054 C.E. and was bright enough to […]
The Hubble telescope has shifted into one-gyro mode after months of technical issues − an aerospace engineering expert explains
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 […]
NASA telescope spots ‘cosmic fireworks’ and faint echos from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole
Astronomers have spotted flares and echos coming from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). These “cosmic fireworks” and X-ray echoes could help scientists better understand the dark and quiet cosmic titan around which our galaxy orbits. The team of Michigan State University researchers made the groundbreaking […]
NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope captures closest super star cluster to Earth (image)
It’s a bird… it’s a plane… it’s a super star cluster! NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope has imaged a star cluster that is “super” in every way. Westerlund 1 is super-large, super-massive, super-young, super-close — and it is creating stars at a super-fast rate. Westerlund 1 is located around 13,000 light-years away from Earth — meaning […]
Cosmic ‘koi fish’ swims through starry sea in stunning telescope photo
A bright pink koi fish has been spotted swimming across the southern sky. The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) VLT Survey Telescope (VST) snapped a beautiful new view of the Gum 3 nebula, located about 3,600 light-years from Earth. The nebula — an interstellar cloud of gas and dust that plays a key role in the […]
Hubble Telescope maps high-speed ‘burps’ from nearby feeding supermassive black hole for 1st time
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 […]
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Hubble Telescope shares stunning galactic view despite recent hardware malfunction (photo)
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 […]
Door Is Jammed on Expensive Space Telescope, Blocking Its View of Space
Pod Bay Door Astronomers are excited to glean new insights into the formation of the universe and dark matter with the help of a space telescope called the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a partnership between the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA. The telescope was successfully launched in September 2023. But as […]
James Webb telescope reveals ‘cataclysmic’ asteroid collision in nearby star system
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found evidence of two giant asteroids slamming into each other in a nearby star system. The colossal collision ejected 100,000 times more dust than the impact that killed the dinosaurs. The violent impact occurred recently in Beta Pictoris, a star system located 63 light-years away in the constellation […]