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Astronomy

Heroes of Space: Edwin Hubble

How one of the world’s greatest astronomers shaped our understanding of the universe

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

News

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

News

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

News

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

News

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

News

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

News

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

News

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

News

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

News

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

News

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

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