Hubble News

News Release: Historic Hubble Servicing Mission 4 ends with successful landing

Sun, 24 May 2009 22:30:00 +0200

The historic and successful Hubble Servicing Mission 4 concluded with a trouble-free Space Shuttle landing on Sunday. During a series of unprecedented spacewalks, astronauts replaced and repaired a to...

News Release: Servicing Mission 4 - the fifth and final visit to Hubble

Fri, 01 May 2009 11:30:00 +0200

On 11 May 2009 the Space Shuttle Atlantis will launch with a crew of seven to visit the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and carry out the fifth and final servicing mission. The replacement and repair ...

Photo Release: Hubble celebrates 19th anniversary with fountain of youth

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:00:00 +0200

To commemorate the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's 19 years of success, the orbiting telescope has photographed a peculiar system of galaxies known as Arp 194. This interacting group contains severa...

Photo Release: Dramatically backlit dust in giant galaxy

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:30:00 +0200

A new Hubble image highlights striking swirling dust lanes and glittering globular clusters in oddball galaxy NGC 7049.

Photo Release: Four of Saturn's moons parade by their parent

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0100

A new Hubble image shows four of Saturn's moons circling the ringed planet

News Release: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides new evidence for dark matter around small galaxies

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0100

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a strong new line of evidence that galaxies are embedded in halos of dark matter.

Photo Release: Stars forced to relocate near the Southern Fish

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:00:00 +0100

A new Hubble image shows three galaxies locked in a gravitational tug-of-war that may result in the eventual demise of one of them.

Photo Release: Exceptionally deep view of strange galaxy

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:00:00 +0100

A spectacular new image of an unusual spiral galaxy in the Coma Galaxy Cluster has been created from data taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. It reveals fi...

News Release: Hubble finds carbon dioxide on an extrasolar planet

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:00:00 +0100

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This is an important step along the trail of finding the chemical biotracers of e...

Photo Release: Hubble captures outstanding views of mammoth stars

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0100

Two of our Galaxy's most massive stars have been scrutinised in an impressive view by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. They have, until recently, been shrouded in mystery, but the new image shows ...

News Release: Hubble directly observes planet orbiting Fomalhaut

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:30:00 +0100

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible light snapshot of a planet circling another star.

Photo Release: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is back in business

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0100

The Hubble Space Telescope is back in business with a snapshot of the fascinating galaxy pair Arp 147.

News Release: When it comes to galaxies, diversity is everywhere

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:00:00 +0200

A group of galaxies in our cosmic backyard has given astronomers clues about how stars form. A thorough survey using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed around 14 million stars in 69 gala...

News Release: Clash of clusters provides new dark matter clue

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:00:00 +0200

A powerful collision between galaxy clusters has been captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This clash of clusters provides striking evidence for dark m...

News Release: Hubble sees magnetic monster in erupting galaxy

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:00:00 +0200

The Hubble Space Telescope has found the answer to a long-standing puzzle by resolving giant but delicate filaments shaped by a strong magnetic field around the active galaxy NGC 1275. It is the most ...

Photo Release: Hubble unveils colourful star birth region on 100 000th orbit milestone

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:00:00 +0200

In commemoration of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope completing its 100 000th orbit around the Earth in its 18th year of exploration and discovery, scientists have aimed Hubble to take a snapshot o...

News Release: Globular clusters tell tale of star formation in nearby galaxy metropolis

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:00:00 +0200

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has identified thousands of more than 5 billion year-old globular clusters in the Virgo cluster of galaxies. One of the results of these discoveries led astronomers...

News Release: Lenses galore - Hubble finds large sample of very distant galaxies

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:00:00 +0200

New Hubble Space Telescope observations of six spectacular galaxy clusters acting as gravitational lenses have given significant insights into the early stages of the Universe. Scientists have found t...

Photo Release: Hubble's sweeping view of the Coma Galaxy Cluster

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:00:00 +0200

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the Universe.

News Release: The Antennae Galaxies move closer

Fri, 09 May 2008 12:00:00 +0200

New research on the Antennae Galaxies using the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows that this benchmark pair of interacting galaxies is in fact much closer th...

News Release: Compact galaxies in early Universe pack a big punch

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:00:00 +0200

Using the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer onboard of the Hubble NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have made observations of young, surprisingly compact galaxies, each onl...

Photo Release: Galaxies gone wild!

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:00:00 +0200

Fifty nine new images of colliding galaxies make up the largest collection of Hubble images ever released together. As this astonishing Hubble atlas of interacting galaxies illustrates, galaxy collisi...

News Release: Black hole found in enigmatic Omega Centauri

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:00:00 +0200

Omega Centauri has been known as an unusual globular cluster for a long time. A new result obtained by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Observatory reveals that the explanation behin...

Photo Release: Exploding star in NGC 2397

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:30:00 +0200

The latest image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a sharp view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2397. This image also shows a rare Hubble view of the late stages of a supernova - SN 2006bc, di...

News Release: Hubble finds first organic molecule on extrasolar planet

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:00:00 +0100

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough is an important step in eventually i...