Now here's a shocker from out of nowhere--Pluto, that planet that was formerly a planet but is now merely just a dwarf planet, is apparently changing color. Sure, it may look like a yellow-orange speck out in the distance to us, and with a whole lot of gray shot through it besides, but according to researchers ...
It's been a while since we last talked about anything that came out of the Hubble's memory banks, folks, so this is definitely an awesome slice of news. Remember how we were saying before that Hubble's range was pretty much reaching the limit by grabbing stuff that started a billion years after the "big bang"? ...
You might not believe the idea that if you fire infrared light into space, it manages to make things at least temporarily visible that weren't before. Thus, a three hundred and twenty million dollar infrared camera is going into orbit to get infrared pictures of celestial neighbors we didn't even really know we had. I know, ...
Seriously! I really think it is, because the last time I heard about astronomical units of measure like this I was watching Star Trek! Anyway, news out today says that the Hubble's actually picked up some of the oldest galaxies ever seen. And by any decent standard, these are monstrously old. How old? Their age is ...
What you're looking at there is one of those fantastic picture that the Hubble keeps bringing back in an absolute superabundance, this one of the Iris Nebula. The Iris Nebula, relative to us, is really, really far. Basically, if you stood on earth and shot a flashlight beam in the direction of the Iris Nebula, ...
So here's an interesting bit of news for you this fine morning, folks--seems that there are some folks out there who think that the Hubble telescope, among others, is contributing to making life as we know it MEANINGLESS. They're calling them "life-shrinkers", and some folks think that, by talking about the universe at large, showing us ...
Now here's a quick dose of awesome for you this morning, folks: apparently, the Hubble Telescope, that former laughingstock turned invaluable contribution to science forever, caught the LCROSS...bombing? Landing? What WOULD you call it, exactly? Well, anyway, the Hubble caught it, and apparently it even managed to generate a pic or two. Sadly, we don't actually ...
Take a look at this incredible shot from space--the merger of two separate galaxies into one. A little more from the steadily growing Hubble telescope collection shows the galaxy known as NGC 2623, which is a pair of colliding galaxies two hundred and fifty million light years away from us. The galaxies have already merged at their ...
It's a fitting sendoff to the Hubble, once regarded as the laughingstock of technology circles, recently spectacularly vindicated when it brought back a slew of data on the various astronomical phenomenon out there. It will be getting its very own 3-D IMax movie, slated to be called "Hubble 3D" Hubble 3D will include history and assorted ...
It's not just the Hubble that's bringing back some really amazing pictures of space any more, folks--check out this shot of the Hydra A galaxy from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The physics of this shot pretty much eludes me, despite the fact that I read their description no less than three times. Here, take a look ...
