Tag: Hubble Space Telescope
The missing dark matter in certain galaxies can be explained by the effects of tidal disruption: the gravity forces of a neighboring massive galaxy, literally tearing the smaller galaxy apart. #darkmatter
While appearing as a delicate and light veil draped across the sky, this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope actually depicts a small section of the Cygnus supernova blast wave, located around 2600 light-years away. #hubble #CygnusLoop
Since it launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has snapped more than a million images and changed the way we see the universe, literally. Here’s why the Hubble images and the technology are so unique. #hubbletelescope
New measurements from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope confirm that the Universe is expanding about 9% faster than expected based on its trajectory seen shortly after the big bang, astronomers say. #universe
One possibility to explain the speed in which the universe is expanding – is that dark energy, already known to be accelerating the cosmos, maybe shoving galaxies away from each other with even greater — or growing — strength. This means that the acceleration itself might not have a constant value in the universe but changes over time in the universe. #theuniverse
Astronomers have discovered a stunning set of 39 massive galaxies
In the hunt for life on other worlds, astronomers scour over planets that are light-years away. They need ways to identify life from afar—but what counts as good evidence? #nasa
NGC 2903 is a galaxy located about 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (the Lion) and was studied as part of a Hubble survey of the central regions of roughly 145 nearby disk galaxies.
Albert Einstein predicted that whenever light from a distant star passes by a closer object, gravity acts as a kind of magnifying lens, brightening and bending the distant starlight. Yet, in a 1936 article in the journal Science, he added that because stars are so far apart “there is no hope of observing this phenomenon directly.” Until now!
Sept. 26: NASA Sets to Release Details of ‘Surprising Activity’ on Europa, Many Speculate Alien Life
According to NASA, it will hold a teleconference on Monday, Sept. 26, 2016, to present new findings From images of Europa, one of the largest of Jupiter’s 67 known moons
