21 July 2021
New balloon-borne astronomical telescope to rival Hubble
... than an hour - a stability that should produce images as sharp as those taken with Hubble. An added advantage of carrying a telescope on a balloon is maintenance. The Hubble Space Telescope will not last forever and when it does succumb to problems...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
...’ treatise or Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks. Given the chance, we’d do everything we could to preserve those, so why not Hubble? Hubble’s merit from a scientific standpoint is without question but it has also entered the public consciousness in a way...
June 2018
Striding through space
... Apollo 11 mission in 1969 and helping to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope as a mission specialist on the STS-31 mission...380 miles. A problem encountered during the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope saw McCandless and a crewmate suited up in ...
May 2020
Space astronomy at the limits of technology
... Scott Tennant, programme manager at Ball Aerospace in Colorado, USA, has worked on all four of NASA’s Great Observatories - Hubble, Compton, Chandra and Spitzer – which gives him a fairly unique perspective on space science. ROOM’s US editor, Amanda...
08 December 2015
New light shed on the mystery of 'Born Again' stars
...Gosnell, at the University of Texas, who have used the Hubble Space Telescope to ascertain why “blue stragglers” look hotter and ...star cluster NGC 188 that contained 21 blue stragglers. Using Hubble to identify the ultraviolet glow of a white dwarf, ...
14 April 2017
Cassini finds evidence for hydrothermal vent activity on Enceladus
...year, in the same place that one was spotted by Hubble in 2014. Like Enceladus, both plumes correspond to the location...features that could be cracks in the moon's icy crust. “After Hubble imaged this new plume-like feature on Europa, we looked at that...
