/tags/hubble-space-telescope Hubble Space Telescope en-US SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ä± Wed, 22 Feb 2023 19:50:07 GMT /npr-breaking-news/2023-02-22/the-webb-telescope-finds-surprisingly-massive-galaxies-from-the-universes-youth At about 600 million years after the Big Bang, they're not the oldest galaxies the telescope has spotted. But they appear as developed as our Milky Way — far further along than researchers expected. Wed, 22 Feb 2023 19:50:07 GMT /npr-breaking-news/2023-02-22/the-webb-telescope-finds-surprisingly-massive-galaxies-from-the-universes-youth The Associated Press /space/2022-11-23/the-james-webb-telescope-shows-how-starlight-transforms-a-distant-jupiter-like-planet Scientists studying a gas giant planet have found that it's partly cloudy and that its atmosphere gets altered by starlight from its host star. Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:00:00 GMT /space/2022-11-23/the-james-webb-telescope-shows-how-starlight-transforms-a-distant-jupiter-like-planet Nell Greenfieldboyce /space/npr-breaking-news/2022-10-20/hubbles-1995-image-of-a-star-nursery-was-amazing-take-a-look-at-nasas-new-version The James Webb Space Telescope has captured NASA's most detailed image of the Pillars of Creation that is helping scientists better understand how stars form. Thu, 20 Oct 2022 20:30:35 GMT /space/npr-breaking-news/2022-10-20/hubbles-1995-image-of-a-star-nursery-was-amazing-take-a-look-at-nasas-new-version Ashley Ahn /news/2022-07-18/this-app-compares-hubble-and-webb-images-the-differences-are-astronomical Software developer John Christensen coded an app to show you just how far NASA innovation has come since Hubble. Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:15:38 GMT /news/2022-07-18/this-app-compares-hubble-and-webb-images-the-differences-are-astronomical Kai McNamee /2022-04-13/the-hubble-telescope-confirms-the-largest-comet-nucleus-ever-seen-by-astronomers The comet, known as C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), has an estimated diameter of about 80 miles. That's bigger than Rhode Island and about 50 times larger than the heart of most comets. Wed, 13 Apr 2022 15:00:00 GMT /2022-04-13/the-hubble-telescope-confirms-the-largest-comet-nucleus-ever-seen-by-astronomers Deepa Shivaram /2021-09-16/nasa-is-launching-a-new-telescope-that-could-offer-some-cosmic-eye-candy Hubble's iconic images captured the public's imagination. Will NASA's next big space telescope, which sees infrared light, produce astronomy scenes that pack a similar punch? Thu, 16 Sep 2021 09:00:00 GMT /2021-09-16/nasa-is-launching-a-new-telescope-that-could-offer-some-cosmic-eye-candy Nell Greenfieldboyce /news/2021-07-15/hope-for-the-scope-nasa-begins-process-to-fix-hubble-space-telescope Trouble on the Hubble space telescope could come to an end soon as mission managers work to fix a problem that has taken the telescope offline for over a month. Thu, 15 Jul 2021 19:47:14 GMT /news/2021-07-15/hope-for-the-scope-nasa-begins-process-to-fix-hubble-space-telescope Brendan Byrne /news/2021-06-23/hubble-trouble-nasa-cant-figure-out-whats-causing-computer-issues-on-the-telescope "It's just the inefficiency of trying to fix something which is orbiting 400 miles over your head instead of in your laboratory," said Paul Hertz, the director of astrophysics for NASA. Wed, 23 Jun 2021 21:18:34 GMT /news/2021-06-23/hubble-trouble-nasa-cant-figure-out-whats-causing-computer-issues-on-the-telescope Joe Hernandez /2020-09-08/the-hubble-space-telescope-still-works-great-except-when-it-doesnt None of us is perfect, and sometimes the Hubble Space Telescope just flat-out points to the wrong spot in the sky. This has been happening more than ever in the last couple of years. Tue, 08 Sep 2020 09:54:06 GMT /2020-09-08/the-hubble-space-telescope-still-works-great-except-when-it-doesnt Nell Greenfieldboyce