Beta Pictoris remains the only directly imaged debris disk that has a giant planet (discovered in 2009) with an orbital period short enough (estimated to be between 18 and 22 years) that astronomers can see large motion in just a few years. This allows scientists to study how the Beta Pictoris disk is distorted by the presence of a massive planet embedded within the disk.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

The Hubble Space Telescope is named after one of the preeminent astronomers of the last century, Edwin Hubble. Among his notable discoveries is that the universe we live in is both enormous and expanding. This episode takes us on a journey through the life and times of the person whose name graces one of the most significant scientific instruments ever built.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

Hypergiant stars are among the largest and most luminous in the universe and when they die, they create an enormous explosion, known as hypernovae.  Astronomers using the +Hubble Space Telescope have observed several supernovae in galaxies NGC 266 and NGC 7714 and believe them to be caused by the deaths of these hypergiant stars.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

Astronomers using NASA’s  Hubble Space Telescope have spotted for the first time a distant supernova split into four images. The multiple images of the exploding star are caused by the powerful gravity of a foreground elliptical galaxy embedded in a massive cluster of galaxies.
This unique observation will help astronomers refine their estimates of the amount and distribution of dark matter in the lensing galaxy and cluster. Dark matter cannot be seen directly but is believed to make up most of the universe’s mass.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

Insights into the Interplay of Science & Art
Dario Robleto & Frank Summers... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

Nearly 500 million miles from the Sun lies a moon orbiting Jupiter that is slightly larger than the planet Mercury and may contain more water than all of Earth’s oceans. Temperatures are so cold, though, that water on the surface freezes as hard as rock and the ocean lies roughly 100 miles below the crust. Nevertheless where there is water there could be life as we know it.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

It’s that time again, time for +Tony Darnell and Dr.+Frank Summers  to get together and fill you in on all the latest science and happenings from the Hubble Space Telescope.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute and the
Johns Hopkins University, both in Baltimore, Maryland, have
created a new master catalog of astronomical objects called
the Hubble Source Catalog. The catalog provides one-stop
shopping for measurements of objects observed with NASA’s
Hubble Space Telescope.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

Astronomers using observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and +NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory  have found that dark matter interacts with itself even less than previously thought by researchers. This finding narrows down the options for what this mysterious substance might be.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!