March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... invented, when digital art became available, when the Hubble Space Telescope sent back its first amazing images of...province of stars, nebulae and galaxies - even the Hubble Space Telescope and developments in terrestrial observing have not superseded...
March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
...an easy task. Nonetheless, observations taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) seem to indicate that liquid...of Jupiter’s moon Europa. The plumes, photographed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, were seen in silhouette as the ...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
...WFIRST). It is about the same size as its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope, but has 100 times the field of view with ...starlight after the coronagraph. WFIRST will provide astronomers with Hubble-quality images covering large swaths of the sky. ...
22 June 2018
Most precise test of Einstein’s general relativity outside Milky Way
... out of the movie The Matrix – and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers calculated the mass of nearby...and we measured the amount of gravitational lensing we see from Hubble. We then compared these two ways to measure the strength...
May 2019
Unlocking the full potential of Earth observation
.... The telescope’s mirror, a colossal honeycomb of gold-plated beryllium, is three times larger than the mirror on the Hubble telescope it replaces. Costing over US$9 billion, James Webb is the size of a yacht and has been under development...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... telescope will provide unparalleled resolution, with images more than 12 times sharper than those from the Hubble Space Telescope. The siting of the telescope at Maunakea, Hawaii, has proved controversial and construction has been...
