Edwin Hubble

August 29th 2022

Image: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team; ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar Acknowledgement: J. Schmidt

Webb Telescope Captures the Bamboozling Beauty of the Phantom Galaxy

You’ve never seen the spiral-armed Messier 74 quite like this.

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz Aug 29

August 2nd 2022

Webb Space Telescope Turns Its Eye on the Chaotic Cartwheel Galaxy

The Cartwheel Galaxy formed from a high-speed collision of two galaxies.

Space & Spaceflight Kevin Hurler Aug 2

July 7th 2022

Bask in the Ethereal Beauty of These Artistic Astronomy Photographs

These gorgeous images of the sky are shortlisted in Royal Observatory Greenwich’s annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz Jul 7

November 25th 2021

Surprising Discovery of Two Ancient Galaxies Exposes Our Cloudy View of the Cosmos

Upwards of 10 to 20 percent of the earliest galaxies are hidden by thick blankets of cosmic dust, new research suggests.

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Nov 25

November 17th 2021

NASA Has a New Plan to Wake Up the Hubble Space Telescope

Undeterred by the latest Hubble disruption, NASA has extended the space telescope's support contract to 2026.

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Nov 17

November 2nd 2021

The Hubble Space Telescope Is in Safe Mode for the Third Time This Year

The telescope’s science instruments appear to be fine, but normal operations have been suspended.

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Nov 2

September 16th 2021

Feast Your Eyes on the 12 Winning Astronomy Photographer of the Year Images

The pictures offer dazzling views of our local cosmos.

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz Sep 16

July 20th 2021

Image: NASA, ESA, STScI, Julianne Dalcanton (UW), Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

Rebooted Hubble Telescope Wastes No Time, Captures Cool New Pics of Misfit Galaxies

Science operations resumed on July 17 after the orbiting observatory spent a month stuck in safe mode.

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Jul 20

July 16th 2021

Hubble Space Telescope Is Back

NASA was finally able to bring the orbiting observatory back online after it spent a month in safe mode.

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz Jul 16

July 15th 2021

NASA Identifies ‘Possible Cause’ of Hubble Glitch

Operations are now underway to restore a failing computer on the storied space telescope.

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Jul 15

June 24th 2021

Image: NASA/Smithsonian Institution/Lockheed Corporation

NASA Is Struggling to Identify Source of Hubble Space Telescope Computer Glitch

The space agency might have to resort to a backup computer that hasn't booted up since 2009.

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Jun 24

June 21st 2021

Image: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, STScI, Zili Shen (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale), Shany Danieli (IAS) IMAGE PROCESSING: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

Hubble Space Telescope Takes Another Look at ‘Weird’ Galaxy That Seems to Lack Dark Matter

This fuzzy galaxy has sparked controversy among astrophysicists.

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz Jun 21

June 17th 2021

Aging Hubble Space Telescope in Safe Mode Following Computer Glitch

Please come back, for what seems the billionth time.

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Jun 17

May 20th 2021

Image: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), T. Tsukui & S. Iguchi

This Fuzzy Image Shows a Spiral Forming Soon After the Big Bang

A team of Japanese astronomers recently peered way, way back in time using a telescope array in Chile. What they made out in the distant, early universe is a record-breaking galaxy, one that turns back the clock on when galaxies took on their classic spiral structures. The team’s research was published today in Science. At…

Space & Spaceflight Isaac Schultz May 20

March 23rd 2021

Lego’s New Space Shuttle Discovery With Hubble Telescope Will Send Your Inner NASA Nerd Into Orbit

Lego’s continued push to create impressively detailed replica sets targeted at older builders is making it harder to be a fiscally responsible adult. To help celebrate NASA’s latest success with landing another rover on Mars, Lego’s new Discovery Space Shuttle commemorates one of the space agency’s previous achievements: launching the Hubble Space Telescope over 30…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski Mar 23

November 27th 2018

Expanding Universe Mystery Deepens

An important discrepancy in measurements of the universe’s acceleration has theorists wondering whether we’ve gotten something fundamentally wrong in our understanding of the history of the universe. One currently unexplained cosmological mystery is the “Hubble tension,” where various measurements of the universe’s expansion seem to disagree. As the story surrounding this tension gets murkier, others…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Nov 27

September 11th 2013

How red light revealed that the Universe is expanding

We have known for some time that the universe is expanding, and that its expansion is accelerating. But how do we know that? We’ll show you how Edwin Hubble revealed that the universe is getting away from us. One of the biggest shocks, when studying science history, is much our view of the universe has…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 11

April 21st 2013

Gaze upon the bizarre mysteries of this hidden star cluster

This is Palomar 2, one of 15 globular star clusters originally discovered by Hubble—not the space telescope, but its legendary namesake, as Edwin Hubble was part of the project that first discovered these clusters back in the 1950s. This cluster was identified during the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, hence the name Palomar 2. Its discovery…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Apr 21

May 24th 2011

This is the most important star in the universe

This star may not look like much, but in 1923 it changed our understanding of the universe forever. It showed us that the Milky Way wasn’t a lonely island universe, but instead just one of billions and billions of galaxies. It seems weird to think that less than a hundred years ago we still had…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins May 24

April 20th 2011

25 Great Books By Legendary Scientists

From Darwin and Einstein to Hawking and Sagan, here are twenty-five amazing books written by world-famous scientists. These are legendary texts, popular science explainers, personal memoirs, and controversial new theories, and they’re all enduring monuments to the power of science. 1. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Darwin is obviously recognized as the father…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Apr 20

Webb Telescope Captures the Bamboozling Beauty of the Phantom Galaxy

Webb Space Telescope Turns Its Eye on the Chaotic Cartwheel Galaxy

Bask in the Ethereal Beauty of These Artistic Astronomy Photographs

Surprising Discovery of Two Ancient Galaxies Exposes Our Cloudy View of the Cosmos

NASA Has a New Plan to Wake Up the Hubble Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope Is in Safe Mode for the Third Time This Year

Feast Your Eyes on the 12 Winning Astronomy Photographer of the Year Images

Rebooted Hubble Telescope Wastes No Time, Captures Cool New Pics of Misfit Galaxies

Hubble Space Telescope Is Back

NASA Identifies ‘Possible Cause’ of Hubble Glitch

NASA Is Struggling to Identify Source of Hubble Space Telescope Computer Glitch

Hubble Space Telescope Takes Another Look at ‘Weird’ Galaxy That Seems to Lack Dark Matter

Aging Hubble Space Telescope in Safe Mode Following Computer Glitch

This Fuzzy Image Shows a Spiral Forming Soon After the Big Bang

Lego’s New Space Shuttle Discovery With Hubble Telescope Will Send Your Inner NASA Nerd Into Orbit

Expanding Universe Mystery Deepens

How red light revealed that the Universe is expanding

Gaze upon the bizarre mysteries of this hidden star cluster

This is the most important star in the universe

25 Great Books By Legendary Scientists

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