CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Hubble Space Telescope has temporarily stopped observing the cosmos. NASA said the telescope slipped into a hibernating state more than a week ago when one of its three remaining gyroscopes — part of the pointing system — malfunctioned. The same device has been acting up for months and disrupting […]
We’ll get an update about NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope tomorrow (June 4), and it could be a pretty big deal. On June 3, the agency announced that the Hubble Space Telescope team will be holding a press conference about the observatory’s status tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT). Specifically, officials said the point of […]
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has done it again. According to new research, astronomers using the powerful infrared telescope have revealed what appears to be the two earliest, most distant galaxies in the known universe, dating to just 300 million years after the Big Bang. The ancient galaxy duo break the records set by […]
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the earliest-known galaxy, one that is surprisingly bright and big considering it formed during the universe’s infancy – at only 2% its current age. Webb, which by peering across vast cosmic distances is looking way back in time, observed the galaxy as […]
The dwarf galaxy NGC 4449 is the star of the show in the James Webb Space Telescope‘s latest cosmic portrait. Located 12.5 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs, NGC 4449 has much in common with our very own Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. […]
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered not one but two of the earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen, continuing to break the records it previously set. The furthest galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0, is seen as it was around 300 million years after the Big Bang, existing at least 100 million years earlier than the […]
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered what appears to be a new record-holder for the most distant known galaxy, a remarkably bright star system that existed just 290 million years after the Big Bang, NASA said Thursday. Since coming online in 2022, the Webb telescope has ushered in a new era of scientific breakthroughs, […]
Using the Euclid space telescope, scientists have discovered a staggering 1.5 trillion orphan stars drifting through a massive cluster of thousands of galaxies, one of the largest structures in the cosmos. These orphan stars, ripped free from their own galaxies, are filling the space between the galaxies of the Perseus cluster with ghostly blue light. […]
A bejeweled galaxy shines brightly in a stunning new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope. The nearby spiral galaxy, formally known as NGC 4689, lies only 54 million light-years from Earth. It is located in the constellation Coma Berenices, which means “Berenice’s Hair” in Latin and refers to Queen Berenice II of Egypt. As such, […]
After viewing just a single day’s worth of observations from the new Euclid space mission, astronomers are already on the edge of their seats, excited for what they may reveal about the cosmos. However, these images are also inspiring awe and wonder about the beauty of the universe around us. Euclid s new image of […]
Construction of the Extremely Large Telescope has reached another milestone, with the completion of the dome’s steel skeleton. The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world’s largest visible- and infrared-light telescope — is under development on the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile’s Atacama Desert and is expected to see its […]
An innovative telescope design has proven successful for daytime skywatching, opening new doors for uninterrupted observation of the cosmos. Astronomers at Macquarie University in Australia have developed a new technique using light filters on the school’s multi-lens Huntsman Telescope. Originally designed for ultra-sensitive night sky observations, the telescope has demonstrated an ability to accurately measure […]