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 Hubble team measured the mass of ...
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NASA’s Hubble Finds 2 Tiny Dwarf Galaxies
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has sent images of two tiny dwarf galaxies that have wandered from a vast cosmic wilderness into a nearby “big city” packed with galaxies, ahead of ...
Read More »Hubble Locates a New Gem in Space
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST), which is running its 25th year in the space currently, spotted a little gem – a planetary nebula, there. The planetary nebula known as “NGC ...
Read More »Distant Uranus-sized exoplanet discovered through microlensing
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have made independent confirmations of an exoplanet orbiting far from its central star, using a technique called gravitational microlensing. ...
Read More »India’s Astrosat to Join NASA’s Hubble, Russian Spektr R, Japan’s Suzaku to Study Astronomy
India is gearing up to launch its own ASTROSAT, the first dedicated space observatory similar to NASA’s Hubble to study deep space in October 2015. The observatory to be placed ...
Read More »NASA spy telescopes from NRO to decode mysterious dark energy
The US space agency is planning to use two former spy telescopes to study mysterious dark energy in space. NASA received the two telescopes from the National Reconnaissance Office (() ...
Read More »Dark Matter darker than previously thought, say astronomers
Using observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have found that dark matter does not slow down when colliding with itself, meaning it interacts with itself ...
Read More »NASA Hubble Telescope Picks ‘ghost light’ from Dead Galaxies
NASA’s Hubble telescope has picked up the faint, “ghost light” emanating from stars, which were supposedly ejected from ancient galaxies after they were gravitationally ripped apart billions of years ago. ...
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