How one of the world’s greatest astronomers shaped our understanding of the universe
Astronomy
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Solar System
New image release: Hubble showcases new portrait of Jupiter
The NASA/ESA space telescope reveals the intricate, detailed beauty of the gas giant’s clouds in this new image taken on 27 June 2019
Deep Space
Hubble Space Telescope snaps stunning view of crowded cluster
These compact stellar gatherings orbit around galaxies and typically reside in their outer and less-crowded areas, gathering to form dense communities in the galactic suburbs
Astronomy
NIGHT SKY: See a bright comet make a close flyby this Sunday
On 16 Sunday December, comet 46P/Wirtanen will make one of the 10 closest approaches of Earth in 70 years – and you may even be able to see it without a telescope
Deep Space
Hubble spots a exoplanet rapidly evaporating
The search for hot-Neptunes has led to the discovery of GJ 3470b that is losing its atmosphere at a tremendous rate
Solar System
New images added to our Solar System’s family photo album
Hubble has taken advantage of the recent oppositions of Mars and Saturn to picture them in extraordinary detail
Astronomy
Why do images of deep space objects look so colourful?
What causes the vivid colours in deep space photography?
Deep Space
Hubble and Gaia unite to understand cosmic expansion
Using the power and synergy of two space telescopes, astronomers have made the most precise measurement to date of the universe’s expansion rate.
Deep Space
Scientists successfully test Einstein’s general relativity outside the Milky Way
By comparing the mass of ESO 325-G004 with the curvature of space around it, the astronomers found that gravity on these astronomical length-scales behaves as predicted by general relativity
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Universe contains 10 times more galaxies than previously thought
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have performed an accurate census of the number of galaxies in the cosmos
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Hubble spots giant ‘hot cannonballs’ shooting from star
The plasma balls are zooming so fast through space it would take only 30 minutes for them to travel from Earth to the Moon
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Hubble captures best ever view of comet breaking up
The sharpest, most detailed observations of a comet breaking apart 67 million miles from Earth has been captured
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Astronomers have worked out why there are different kinds of galaxy
The finding means we can now classify these structures according to their physical properties rather than human interpretation
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Star cluster found to host hundreds of black holes
Astronomers have shone light on a globular cluster of stars that could host several hundred black holes, a phenomenon that until recently was thought impossible
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Mysterious multiple explosions of supernova decoded by Hubble
In the mid-1800s, astronomers surveying the night sky in the Southern Hemisphere noticed something strange about the star Eta Carinae
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Hubble image release: Spacecraft snaps ancient cosmic cluster
NGC 4833, captured in all its glory, is one of over 150 globular clusters known to reside within the Milky Way
Deep Space
Hubble shows the Crab Nebula as never seen before in new image
New shot reveals the beating heart of one of the most visually appealing, and most studied, supernova remnants
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Hubble captures Neptune’s vortex in new image
New images obtained by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope confirm the presence of a dark vortex in the atmosphere of the ice giant
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Universe is expanding faster than previously thought
Astronomers have obtained the most precise measurement yet of how fast the universe is expanding at the present time
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Astronomers detect faintest-ever galaxy from the early universe
An international team of scientists has detected and confirmed the faintest structure not long after the birth of the universe