News articles tagged with 'Hubble' (Page 2)
Hubble scrutinises site of mysterious flash and missing cloud belt on Jupiter
— 17 Jun 2010 14:54 | AstronomyAt 22:31 (CEST) on 3 June 2010 Australian amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley saw a two-second-long flash of light on the disc of Jupiter. He was watching a live video feed from his telescope.…
Out of whack planetary system offers clues to a disturbed past
— 25 May 2010 12:01 | AstronomyAstronomers are reporting today the discovery of a planetary system way out of tilt, where the orbits of two planets are at a steep angle to each other. This surprising finding will…
Starry-eyed Hubble celebrates 20 years of awe and discovery
— 24 Apr 2010 12:13 | AstronomyHubble's unprecedented capabilities have made it one of the most powerful science instruments ever conceived by humans, and certainly the one most embraced by the public. Hubble's discoveries…
Dark matter lens used to measure age of universe
— 15 Mar 2010 13:45 | AstronomyAstronomers from the United States and Europe have used a gravitational lens - a distant, light-bending clump of dark matter - to make a new estimate of the Hubble constant, which determines…
Jurassic space: Ancient galaxies come together after billions of years
— 22 Feb 2010 14:35 | AstronomyImagine finding a living dinosaur in your backyard. Astronomers have found the astronomical equivalent of prehistoric life in our intergalactic backyard: a group of small, ancient galaxies…
Saturn's aurorae images 'unique to science'
— 13 Feb 2010 21:05 | AstronomyScientists from the University of Leicester have led an international study to capture space images that are unique to science…
Pluto's white, dark-orange, and charcoal-black terrain captured by Hubble
— 7 Feb 2010 16:56 | AstronomyNASA has released the most detailed and dramatic images ever taken of the distant dwarf planet Pluto. The images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show an icy, mottled, dark molasses-coloured…
Where did today's spiral galaxies come from?
— 7 Feb 2010 16:44 | AstronomyHubble shows that the beautiful spirals galaxies of the modern Universe were the ugly ducklings of six billion years ago…
Suspected asteroid collision leaves trailing debris
— 3 Feb 2010 12:34 | AstronomyNASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids. Astronomers have…
Astronomers detect earliest galaxies
— 6 Jan 2010 11:36 | AstronomyAstronomers, using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, have broken the distance limit for galaxies by uncovering a primordial population of compact and ultra-blue galaxies that have never…