Tag: Hubble Space Telescope
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With Juno on Jupiter’s doorstep, Hubble eyes glowing Jovian auroras
Peering a half-billion miles across the solar system, the Hubble Space Telescope has caught a glimpse of brilliant auroras flashing over Jupiter’s north pole as NASA’s Juno orbiter speeds toward the gas giant for a close-up look. Part of Juno’s multi-pronged scientific campaign is aimed to determining how Jupiter’s auroras form and evolve, along with investigations…
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Hubble Space Telescope celebrates the Fourth of July with galactic fireworks
The tadpole galaxy Kiso 5639, also known as LEDA 36252, sparkles in this Hubble image. (Credit: D. Elmegreen et al. / Vassar / NASA / ESA) Kiso 5639 is just a tadpole when it comes to galaxies, but it’s a real firecracker in a picture unveiled by the Hubble Space Telescope’s science team just in…
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Latest close-up of Mars comes from Hubble telescope
Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 took this image of Mars on May 12 at a distance of 50 million miles. Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (ASU), and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute) If you look at the night sky this month, chances are you can’t miss Mars rising in the…
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Latest close-up of Mars comes from Hubble telescope
Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 took this image of Mars on May 12 at a distance of 50 million miles. Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (ASU), and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute) If you look at the night sky this month, chances are you can’t miss Mars rising in the…
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Holy Hubble! See a super-sized Mars get bigger than it’s looked for a decade
This image of Mars was captured on May 12 by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and UVIS. Click on the image for an annotated view. (Credit: NASA, / ESA / STScI / AURA / J. Bell / ASU / M. Wolff / STScI) For the next couple of weeks, Mars will look…
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Hubble Space Telescope spots a moon circling faraway dwarf planet Makemake
An artist’s conception shows the distant dwarf planet Makemake with its dark moon, MK 2, lurking to the right. (Credit: NASA / ESA / A. Parker / SwRI) Chalk up another moon for the dwarf planets: Astronomers have sifted through imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope to find a tiny satellite circling Makemake. Makemake (pronounced Mah-kay-mah-kay, like the Rapa…
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Hubble bubble! Nebula shines on birthday card for 26-year-old space telescope
The Bubble Nebula, also known as NGC 7653, is an emission nebula located 8,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. (Credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team) It’s been 26 years since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit, but the Bubble Nebula picture unveiled to mark its birthday would make the great…
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‘Hubble Hugger’ and chief of NASA science division to leave agency
John Grunsfeld is seen inside the shuttle Atlantis’ airlock preparing for a spacewalk during a 2009 visit to the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA Veteran astronaut John Grunsfeld, who flew five space shuttle missions before becoming the head of NASA’s science mission directorate in 2012, announced Tuesday he will leave the space agency April 30.…
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Far out! Hubble astronomers set record for spotting most distant galaxy (again)
This image locates galaxy GN-z11 in the northern hemisphere field of the Hubble GOODS survey, which takes in tens of thousands of galaxies stretching far back into time. GN-z11, shown in the inset, is seen as it was 13.4 billion years in the past, just 400 million years after the big bang, when the universe…
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First spectral analysis of a super-Earth’s atmosphere shows it’s not super for life
An artist’s impression shows the super-Earth 55 Cancri e in front of its parent star. The star is slightly smaller, cooler and less massive than our sun. (Credit: M. Kornmesser / ESA / Hubble) For the first time, astronomers have conducted a spectral analysis of a distant super-Earth’s atmosphere – and the results show it…