The optical telescope, which has orbited the Earth since 1990, encountered problems on Sunday at around 4pm ET, the US space agency revealed in a statement on Wednesday. “After analyzing the data, the Hubble operations team is investigating whether a degrading memory module led to the computer halt,” NASA said. …
Read More »Hubble telescope team marks 31st birthday with image of rare ultra-bright star on the brink of annihilation
tAG Carinae, a type of star called a luminous blue variable (LBV), is located some 20,000 light years away. It is just a few million years old, and yet is soon to meet its doom, cosmically speaking. Estimated to be up to 70 times more massive than our Sun, it …
Read More »Hubble Telescope finds 2 ‘needles’ in separate galactic haystacks with double-quasar discovery
By leveraging the wealth of information collected by the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite and the ground-based Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the researchers narrowed down their hunt for these rare, though extremely bright dual quasars, hiding in plain sight among the stars across the universe. A quasar is the extremely …
Read More »Hubble got the perfect spiral galaxy in the constellation of the Lion
The galaxy is about 30 million light years from Earth. Scientists using a telescope “Hubble” has received the NGC 2903 – ‘perfect’ spiral galaxy, which is located at a distance of 30 million light years from Earth in the constellation of Leo. As reported on the website of the telescope, …
Read More »“Hubble” has made the space “the Christmas picture”
In the picture located planetary nebula NGC 6326.Scientists using a telescope “Hubble” has received the planetary nebulae NGC 6326, which is reminiscent of a Christmas figure, according to the NASA website. In the picture you can see clouds of gas that are illuminated by a star, located in the centre …
Read More »Hubble photographed “explosive” galaxy
A massive release of energy is very rare cosmic phenomenon. NASA experts have published a unique photograph of the “explosion” of the galaxy. This phenomenon is one of the most rare in space. The picture was taken using orbital telescope Hubble and captured it 580-49 galaxy ESO which is in …
Read More »The Hubble telescope recorded the explosion of a supernova
Pictures were taken within two years from 6 November 2014 to 12 October 2016. Astronomers using the Hubble telescope recorded the explosion of a supernova SN 2014J. This is the website of NASA. The star is in the galaxy M82. According to astronomers, the supernova star, is marked in the …
Read More »Hubble took a picture of two galaxies colliding
As a result of collision of the galaxy “scattered” on two bright and long tail. Space telescope Hubble took a detailed picture of the collision of two galaxies in the constellation of Cancer. As a result of collision of the galaxy “scattered” on two bright and long tail, sostojashie million …
Read More »Hubble took a picture of the broken galaxy
The structure of the galaxy is distorted, and its bright – outside the center of a star system. Space telescope Hubble took a picture of the galaxy IC 1727, which had actually been torn apart by its gravitational interaction with nearby NGC 672. The corresponding image is published on the …
Read More »“Hubble” showed “twin” of the milky Way
NGC 2500 is still actively producing stars. Scientists using a telescope “Hubble” has received the NGC 2500, which is located at a distance of 30 million light years from Earth in the constellation Lynx. The picture was published on the website of the telescope. NGC 2500 is a spiral galaxy …
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