Even though James Webb stole the show, Hubble’s still up and running and still treating us with marvelous photos. It recently took an absolutely gorgeous image inside the Orion Nebula, detecting two young stars that are quite unsteady in temperament… Almost like human teenagers.
NASA’s sonification of the giant RS Puppis star is perfect for your Christmas playlist
The holiday season is here, and all those good, old Christmas songs are probably already on your playlist. But why not spice it up with something new this year? Something you haven’t heard before, and it’s both festive as Jingle Bells, and a bit eerie like Carol of the Bells.
I have just the song for you. NASA has released the sonification of the giant RS Puppis star, bringing together music and space photography in a festive piece of music made of stars. Literally. [Read More…]
Hubble’s mesmerizing close-up of Lagoon Nebula looks like ink in water
Photographing ink as it transforms and “dances” in water was one of my first “experiments” when I started doing photography. And to this day, I love photos like this and can’t get enough of them.
In more recent years, I got interested in astrophotography, both from the ground and from the orbit. And the latest Hubble photo somehow merged the “ink in water” look with space photography. The telescope’s close-up shot of Lagoon Nebula is like a space version of dissolved ink, and it’s as mesmerizing as it can be.
These “space fireworks” show remnants of a massive supernova
NASA recently released a stunning Hubble photo of remnants of a massive supernova. While the image seems way more peaceful than real fireworks, this colorful cloud is actually a result of something… well, far less peaceful. What is now a cloud of intricate filaments used to be a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way.
Hubble’s latest photo shows the earliest stage of star formation ever captured
Last week, James Webb Space Telescope treated us with a magical “hourglass” of a new star formation. But good ol’ Hubble beats a new record, capturing the birth of a new star at its very earliest stage.
This dreamy, ethereal image shows a small and dense cloud of gas and dust in the constellation Serpens, called CB 130-3. Such dense cores are the birthplaces of stars, so we’re definitely looking at something extraordinary here.
Hubble captures rare photo of evolving supernova in early universe
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope brings us a pretty incredible and rare “blast from the past.” In a recent photo, the telescope captured three different moments in a supernova explosion that happened more than 11 billion years ago. In “universe years,” that’s merely childhood, which is certainly incredible. However, Hubble’s snap is special for something else too: shooting a supernova as it happens isn’t exactly an everyday sight.
James Webb telescope updates our view of the Pillars of Creation in spectacular detail
NASA’s James Webb telescope has given us an updated image of the spectacular Pillars of Creation. Set within the vast Eagle Nebula, the Pillars were first captured by the Hubble telescope in 1995.
In the images above the Hubble image is on the left while the brand-new James Webb image is on the right. At first glance, you can see how much more detailed the Webb capture is. What looks like swathes of artistic colour in the Hubble telescope transform into millions of distant stars in Webb’s.
Hubble captures stunning photo of two galaxies “dancing”
Even though James Webb Space Telescope has stolen the spotlight since its first photos were released, we mustn’t forget that Hubble’s still alive and kickin’… and taking wonderful photos.
Last week, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a pair of galaxies interacting. Warping each other through gravitation, they appear as if they’re dancing up there in the vastness of the universe.
Hubble and James Webb telescopes both capture the moment when DART spacecraft slammed into asteroid
It’s not every day that NASA sends a $300 million spacecraft to smash deliberately into an asteroid. But that is exactly what happened this week with the DART mission. Allegedly the mission was successful and we now know that science-fiction end of the world by asteroid scenarios could potentially be avoided in real life. And we don’t even need Bruce Willis.
Another first was made as well during the mission. It was the first time that telescopes Hubble and James Webb made observations of the same object simultaneously.
James Webb telescope captures the most distant and oldest galaxy ever observed
James Webb Space Telescope has broken a new record. It has spotted the oldest and the most distant galaxy ever observed, daring back to the youth of our universe. Compared to the previous record held by Hubble, Webb’s photo beat it by nearly 100 million years. And what’s more – the telescope could observe even older and more distant galaxies in the future.
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