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NASA’s Hubble spacecraft discovers evidence of a WEATHER system on nearby ‘Hot Jupiter’ exoplanet – despite blistering surface temperatures of 2,192°F Researchers examined images of WASP-31b taken by the Hubble telescope WASP-31b is an extremely hot ‘puffy planet’ 1,305 light years away from Earth It is tidally locked, with one side facing the star and the … Read more
NASA’s Hubble telescope spots the ‘Greater Pumpkin’ galaxies 120 MILLION light-years from Earth, complete with glowing eyes and a carved crooked smile NASA’s Hubble telescope captured a spooky scene 120 million light-years away Deemed the ‘Greater Pumpkin’, the image is of two galaxies colliding The aging red stars are creating an orange hue that resembles … Read more
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the explosive final moments of a star as it goes supernova in a galaxy 70 million light years from the Earth. Astronomers from Johns Hopkins University used images from the space telescope to track the fading light of the supernova to the spiral galaxy NGC 2525. The supernova, formally … Read more
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures a stunning image of powerful blast wave from a dying star 2,400 light-years from Earth NASA shared the image of the supernova blast wave remnant taken by Hubble What is seen in the image is the very outer edge of a giant supernova blast wave It happened some 20,000 years … Read more
Hubble telescope captures close-up image of comet Neowise after its journey around the Sun showing its solid nucleus has remained intact Neowise is the brightest comet visible in the northern skies since Hale-Bopp It passed closest to the Sun — at 27 million miles distance — on July 3, 2020 NASA have now released shots … Read more
NASA captures summer on Saturn in an amazing new snapshot from the Hubble Space Telescope The stunning image was captured by the orbiting observatory on July 4, 2020 The gas giant’s northern hemisphere appears redder in the summer sunlight Meanwhile, its ring are bright like ‘freshly fallen snow’ and the south pole is blue Two of the … Read more
NASA delays launch of James Webb Telescope AGAIN pushing the Hubble successor’s target date back by seven months due to coronavirus and ‘technical challenges’ NASA’s James Webb telescope will be delayed by seven months It now has an estimated launch date of October 31st, 2021 Technical challenges are the coronavirus pandemic are to blame, says … Read more
Amazing images of the butterfly and the Jewel Bug nebulae have been captured in unprecedented detail by the Hubble Space Telescope, according to NASA. These colourful regions of interstellar space are created thanks to ‘stars gone haywire’, throwing off jets and bubbles of hot gas at the end of their life. The new images show … Read more
Nancy Grace Roman was one of the first women to work at NASA and a central figures in the development of the Hubble Telescope. She was born in Nashville, Tennessee on May 16, 1925. As a child, she was drawn to the study of outer space.’I was just fascinated.’ Roman said in a short NASA … Read more
The Hubble space telescope has captured the clearest images yet of comet ATLAS and found it has shattered into dozens of pieces each at least the size of a house. The comet was discovered by the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) robotic astronomical survey system in Hawaii in December 2019. It became incredibly bright … Read more