News tagged with hubble
Galaxy NGC 4214: A star formation laboratory
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hubble’s newest camera has taken an image of galaxy NGC 4214. This galaxy glows brightly with young stars and gas clouds, and is an ideal laboratory to research star formation and evolution.
May 12, 2011 |
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Two views of a lopsided galaxy (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Meathook Galaxy, or NGC 2442, has a dramatically lopsided shape. One spiral arm is tightly folded in on itself and host to a recent supernova, while the other, dotted with recent star ...
May 04, 2011 |
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Swift and Hubble probe an asteroid crash (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Late last year, astronomers noticed an asteroid named Scheila had unexpectedly brightened, and it was sporting short-lived plumes. Data from NASA's Swift satellite and Hubble Space Telescope ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 28, 2011 |
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Citizen scientists making incredible discoveries
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known," wrote Carl Sagan.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 25, 2011 |
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e-MERLIN set to give wizard new view of Hubble Deep Field region
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Hubble Deep Field (HDF), taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in the 1990s, is one of the most iconic images in astronomy. Now, astronomers at Jodrell Bank Observatory have produced ...
Apr 21, 2011 |
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A galactic rose highlights Hubble's 21st anniversary
(PhysOrg.com) -- In celebration of the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s deployment into space, astronomers pointed Hubble at an especially photogenic group of interacting galaxies called ...
Apr 20, 2011 |
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First galaxies were born much earlier than expected (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the amplifying power of a cosmic gravitational lens, astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy whose stars were born unexpectedly early in cosmic history. This result sheds new light ...
Apr 12, 2011 |
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Chandra observes extraordinary event
(PhysOrg.com) -- Chandra observation confirms the association of GRB 110328A with the core of a distant galaxy.
Apr 08, 2011 |
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Swift, Hubble, Chandra telescopes join forces to observe unprecedented explosion
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Swift, Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to study one of the most puzzling cosmic blasts yet observed. More than a week later, high-energy radiation ...
Apr 07, 2011 |
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Hubble rules out one alternative to dark energy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have ruled out an alternate theory on the nature of dark energy after recalculating the expansion rate of the universe to unprecedented accuracy.
Mar 14, 2011 |
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Dawn gets Vesta target practice (w/ Video)
There is an old chestnut about a pedestrian who once asked a virtuoso violinist near Carnegie Hall how to get to the famed concert venue. The virtuoso's answer: practice!
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 11, 2011 |
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The most distant mature galaxy cluster
Astronomers have used an armada of telescopes on the ground and in space, including the Very Large Telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile to discover and measure the distance to the most remote mature ...
Mar 09, 2011 |
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'Elephant trunks' in space
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, captured this image of a star-forming cloud of dust and gas, called Sh2-284, located in the constellation of Monoceros. Lining up along ...
Mar 07, 2011 |
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Super-sharp radio 'eye' remeasuring the universe
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the super-sharp radio "vision" of astronomy's most precise telescope, scientists have extended a directly-measured "yardstick" three times farther into the cosmos than ever before, an ...
Feb 19, 2011 |
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Flocculent spiral NGC 2841
(PhysOrg.com) -- The galaxy NGC 2841 - shown here in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, taken with the space observatory’s newest instrument, the Wide Field Camera 3 - currently has a relatively ...
Feb 17, 2011 |
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