A new Hubble Space Telescope view of Jupiter reveals the giant planet’s trademark Great Red Spot, and a more intense color palette in the clouds swirling in Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere …read more Source:: Science
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Hubble finds huge system of dusty material enveloping the young star HR 4796A
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•Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to uncover a vast, complex dust structure, about 150 billion miles across, enveloping the young star HR 4796A. …read more Source:: Science
Hubble observes source of gravitational waves for the first time
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•The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed for the first time the source of a gravitational wave, created by the merger of two neutron stars. This merger created a kilonova …read more Source:: Science
The return of the comet-like exoplanet
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•Astronomers have focused the Hubble Space Telescope on an exoplanet that had already been seen losing its atmosphere, which forms an enormous cloud of hydrogen, giving the planet the appearance …read more Source:: Science
Massive dead disk galaxy challenges theories of galaxy evolution
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•By combining the power of a ‘natural lens’ in space with the capability of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers made a surprising discovery — the first example of a compact …read more Source:: Science
Century-old relativity experiment used to measure a white dwarf’s mass
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•Astronomers have used the sharp vision of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to repeat a century-old test of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. The team measured the mass of white dwarf …read more Source:: Science
The supernova that wasn’t: A tale of three cosmic eruptions
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•Long-term observations with the Hubble Space Telescope revealed that Eta Carinae, a very massive star system that has puzzled astronomers since it erupted in a supernova-like event in the mid …read more Source:: Science
Hubble reveals stellar fireworks in ‘skyrocket’ galaxy
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•A new Hubble Space Telescope image shows a firestorm of star birth lighting up one end of the diminutive galaxy Kiso 5639. The dwarf galaxy is shaped like a flattened …read more Source:: Science
Exiled exoplanet likely kicked out of star’s neighborhood
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•The Gemini Planet Imager and the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed details of an unusual exoplanet and its star that suggest the planetary system underwent a violent episode in its …read more Source:: Science
Galaxy star birth regulated by black-hole fountain
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•Astronomers have uncovered a unique process for how the universe’s largest elliptical galaxies continue making stars long after their peak years of star birth. Hubble Space Telescope’s exquisite high resolution …read more Source:: Science