Neptune was discovered 165 years ago. In that time it has made one complete orbit of the Sun and is now in exactly the same place as when it was discovered all those years ago. The Hubble space telescope has taken anniversary pictures to celebrate this event. Neptune, as you probably know if you paid [...]
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A New View of the Galaxy Centaurus A by Hubble
Hubble has used its wide field camera 3 to give the most detailed view of this Galaxy ever. The image shows detail that has never been seen before in the dusty portion of the Galaxy. Centaurus A is also known as NGC 5128 and is a relatively nearby galaxy in astronomical terms. It is close [...]
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Supermassive Black Hole Not at the Centre of a Galaxy
The Hubble telescope has been looking for black holes and studying in particular the supermassive black hole in the most massive galaxy (M87). The supermassive black hole is not in the position that it is supposed to be in which is odd as supermassive black holes are supposed to be at the centre of galaxies. [...]
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A Star Sprints Away from Its Birthplace
The Hubble telescope has found a blue hot star which is 90 times bigger than our sun sprinting across space. It would make the trip from the Earth to the Moon in under two hours which is not the fastest ever but is pretty fast anyway. A rogue star is probably to blame for breaking [...]
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Best of the Week Podcast-Hubble’s First Images of an Extrasolar Planet.
Paul Kalas was the leader of the team who managed the long-sought feat of actually taking a photograph of a planet orbiting another star. Before this, all the planets outside our solar system were found by indirect means. He describes how they achieved the breakthrough, using the Hubble Space Telescope, and discusses the wide range [...]
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Carnival Of Space #123
Normally I write an article on physics or space but sometimes I will be going through a few links of a few blogs that are quite good for all sorts of things about space and physics. This is called a carnival and if you look on the Internet you’ll find a lot of other links [...]
