Tagged: telescope

Tuesday, June 29, 2021: Europe’s veteran X-ray telescope XMM Newton photographed an isolated cloud of gas in a distant galaxy cluster that has been puzzling astronomers for four years. The cloud of gas in the Abell 1367 cluster, also known as the Leo Cluster, is...

Construction of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) observatory, which is set to become the largest radio telescope ever built, will finally commence after nearly 30 years of preparations. Work on the two sites in Australia and South Africa, where the two separate parts of the...

Radio astronomy suffered a blow in late 2020 when the legendary Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico – damaged by recent hurricanes – became non-functional. The National Science Foundation had just announced in November 2020, that Arecibo would be dismantled. Then, on December 1, all hopes...

NASA and ESA’s space telescope snapped a gorgeous supernova remnant, and it’s even more beautiful after a new round of image processing. The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the cosmos in stunning detail over its three decades of service. The telescope’s view of the Veil...

Folks, that’s a whopping four quasars. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is offering yet more insightful images from the cosmos. It captured two quasars that look fairly close together, from a pair of merging galaxies — and then discovered a second set, according to findings published...

Astronomers using ESO’s SPHERE instrument at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed that the asteroid Hygiea could be classified as a dwarf planet. The object is the fourth largest in the asteroid belt after Ceres, Vesta and Pallas. For the first time, astronomers have...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to explore even more cosmic questions, thanks to a new near-infrared filter. The upgrade will allow the observatory to see longer wavelengths of light, opening up exciting new opportunities for discoveries from the edge of our...

Happy birthday, Hubble! To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th anniversary, we’ve picked our favorite images from the iconic deep-space observatory. From colorful nebulas to interacting galaxies, Hubble has imaged so many gorgeous things in space that it was hard to choose our favorites! The...

A volatile double star system appears to change its behavior rapidly and unpredictably like a cosmic story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This stellar duo, known as Terzan 5 CX1, lies roughly 19,000 light-years from Earth in a dense collection of stars, or globular...

What do you get when you put a space telescope to work with another space telescope or two? Amazing compilation images of our universe. NASA recently highlighted some collaborations between its Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, particularly the Hubble Space Telescope, showing what sorts...