The Nancy Roman Telescope has reached another milestone in its development. NASA has announced that the primary mirror of the Space Telescope has now been completed. The 2.4 m (7.9 ft) mirror took less time to develop than other mirrors because it was not built from scratch. It is a …
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The galaxies are already very large, with billions upon billions of stars orbiting supermassive black holes. But that’s not where their influence ends. The vast, spherical charge of gas surrounds the galaxy, reaching farther than the main population of stars, somewhat like the atmosphere of a galaxy. Hubble observations from …
Read More »A close-up view of comet NEOWISE, taken by Hubble on August 8th.Image: NASA, ESA, Q. Zhang (Caltech), and A. Pagan (STScI Comets do not always survive their stay in the inner solar system, but a new close-up image suggests that the comet NEOWISE – the brightest in decades – has …
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The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a glorious image of a galaxy with a very unusual shape. The so-called “Meathook galaxy” was home to a large supernova explosion that was observed just a few years ago. Hubble continues to capture unusual images of the cosmos, though it has been in …
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The loving spiral arms of the “flocculent” galaxy NGC 2775, 67 million light-years away in the … [+] constellation of cancer. ESA / Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team Recognition: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla) Are we bored by the Hubble spaceships? Ask any space fan what their favorite …
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