News tagged with hubble space telescope

Related topics:

Hubble telescope unmasks ghost galaxies

(Phys.org) -- Astronomers have used Hubble Space Telescope to study some of the smallest and faintest galaxies in our cosmic neighbourhood. These galaxies are fossils of the early Universe: they have barely ...

Jul 10, 2012 4.1 / 5 (12) 2 | with audio podcast

Image: A supernova cocoon breakthrough

(Phys.org) -- Using observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers have obtained the first X-ray evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon of gas surrounding the star that ...

Jul 10, 2012 5 / 5 (5) 0

Hubble sees a vapor of stars

(Phys.org) -- Relatively few galaxies possess the sweeping, luminous spiral arms or brightly glowing center of our home galaxy the Milky Way. In fact, most of the Universe's galaxies look like small, amorphous ...

Jul 02, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 | with audio podcast

VLT takes a close look at NGC 6357

(Phys.org) -- ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has taken the most detailed image so far of a spectacular part of the stellar nursery called NGC 6357. The view shows many hot young stars, glowing clouds of ...

Jun 20, 2012 4.3 / 5 (6) 0 | with audio podcast