News Archive / Tagged: Hubble Space Telescope
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30 years since the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope
Theresa CrossApril 24th, 2020Thirty years ago today, the Hubble Space Telescope took to the skies aboard STS-31 and Space Shuttle Discovery.
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New Horizons team releases images of Pluto’s far side
Laurel KornfeldOctober 30th, 2019More than four years after New Horizons' historic July 2015 Pluto flyby, mission scientists have released detailed images of Pluto's far side, which the spacecraft was able to image only in low resolution on approach and following departure.
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Spitzer and Hubble identify atmospheric composition of “sub-Neptune” exoplanet
Laurel KornfeldJuly 6th, 2019Scientists have identified the atmospheric composition of an exoplanet larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune by studying it with both the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes.
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Hubble Kuiper Belt survey to focus on binary systems
Laurel KornfeldApril 8th, 2019The Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is set to use the Hubble Space Telescope to conduct the largest ever survey of the Kuiper Belt.
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Collision likely factor in creation of tiny Neptunian moon
Michael McCabeMarch 6th, 2019A moon orbiting Neptune that was discovered using the Hubble Space Telescope in 2013 finally has an origin theory, according to NASA.
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Hubble Space Telescope encounters another camera problem
Derek RichardsonMarch 4th, 2019Just six weeks after recovering from an anomaly with one camera, an error was detected in another camera aboard NASA’s 29-year-old Hubble Space Telescope.
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Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 resumes operations
Laurel KornfeldJanuary 17th, 2019The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has resumed science operations after spending a week and two days in a safety mode that suspended its activities.
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Hubble camera shut down following anomaly
Jim SharkeyJanuary 10th, 2019Operations of Wide Field Camera 3 on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have been suspended following an anomaly, the space agency said.
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Hubble: You can’t keep a good telescope down – for long
Jason RhianOctober 27th, 2018The Hubble Space Telescope is back in action.
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Chandra X-Ray Observatory back in service after anomaly
Jason RhianOctober 25th, 2018With the potential loss of two of the Great Observatories, NASA and the teams working on the space-based telescopes have demonstrated their resilience in the face of adversity, bringing one back into service and closing in on doing the same for the other.
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Backup Hubble gyroscope encounters anomaly during recovery efforts
Jason RhianOctober 23rd, 2018Engineers encountered a slight hiccup in bringing the Hubble Space Telescope out of safe mode and back to conducting scientific operations.
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Hubble enters safe mode after encountering gyroscope problem
Jason RhianOctober 10th, 2018An issue has been discovered with one of Hubble's gyroscopes that help point the telescope. What impact will this have on science observations made by the 30-year-old spacecraft?
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Has NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope detected first exomoon?
Laurel KornfeldOctober 4th, 2018NASA's Kepler Space Telescope may have discovered evidence of a moon orbiting a planet around a distant star.
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Increase in ‘Oumuamua’s speed through the solar system reveals it to be a comet
Laurel KornfeldJuly 3rd, 2018Scientists observing the path of 'Oumuamua,' the first known interstellar object to pass through the solar system, discovered it to be traveling faster than expected, leading them to conclude it is actually a comet that received a boost in speed through outgassing.
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Hubble spots farthest star ever seen
Jim SharkeyApril 7th, 2018Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an enormous blue star, nicknamed 'Icarus,' located more than halfway across the universe. Icarus is the farthest individual star ever seen. Normally it would be too faint to observe even with the world's largest telescopes, but the astronomers were able to take advantage of a phenomenon known as "gravitational lensing" that greatly magnified the star's faint glow.
