Category Archives: Astronomy

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Hubble Sees Strange Spiral Bridge of Young Stars Between Two Ancient Galaxies

(NASA) – Astronomers routinely use the crisp view of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to study all kinds of intricate details in galaxy clusters. By now you would think they’ve seen…

Kuiper Belt objects

Hubble Proceeding with Full Search for New Horizons Targets

(NASA) – The Hubble Space Telescope has been given the go-ahead to conduct an intensive search for a suitable outer solar system object that the New Horizons (NH) spacecraft could…

Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2014

Hubble Team Unveils Most Colorful View of Universe Captured by Space Telescope

(NASA) – Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have assembled a comprehensive picture of the evolving universe — among the most colorful deep space images ever captured by the 24-year-old…

Camelopardalids shower

Camelopardalids Meteor shower could produce 1000 per hour! TODAY

(NASA) Step outside and take a look at the skies on the evening of May 23 into the early morning of May 24. Scientists are anticipating a new meteor shower,…

Jupiter red spit shrinking

Jupiter’s Giant Red Spot Shrinking, Could Disappear

(NASA) If you have not taken the time to look through a telescope at the Giant Red Spot on Jupiter you should do it, if you wait to long it…

Images of Stars which have planetary debris.

Hubble finds Stars with disks of planetary debris

(NASA) – With the Hubble Space Telescope, if astronomers missed seeing something once in their data, they haven’t missed it forever. Thanks to the wealth of information stored in the…

Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Riess (JHU/STScI), S. Casertano (STScI/JHU), J. Anderson and J. MacKenty (STScI), and A. Filippenko (University of California, Berkeley)

Hubble Stretches Stellar Tape Measure 10 Times Farther into Space

APRIL 10, 2014: Astronomers continue refining the precision of distance measurement techniques to better understand the dimensions of the universe. Calculating the age of the universe, its expansion rate, and the…

El Gordo, ACT-CL J0102-4915

El Gordo Galaxy Cluster 3 million billion times the mass of our Sun

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has weighed the largest known galaxy cluster in the distant universe and found that it definitely lives up to its nickname: El Gordo (Spanish for “the…