Space Telescope
Was the Real Discovery of the Expanding Universe Lost in Translation?
Writing in the November 10th issue of the journal Nature, astrophysicist Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute has put to bed a growing…
Unusually productive dwarf galaxies pose a riddle, but could solve another
For current models of galaxy formation, this high star production rate is difficult to explain. It could, however, serve to solve another dwarf galaxy riddle:…
Astronomers Pin Down Galaxy Collision Rate
The galaxy merger rate is one of the fundamental measures of galaxy evolution, yielding clues to how galaxies bulked up over time through encounters with other…
Ambitious Hubble survey obtaining new dark matter census
The distorted shapes in the cluster are distant galaxies from which the light is bent by the gravitational pull of an invisible material called dark matter…
Giant Webb Space Telescope Model to "Land" in Baltimore
The Webb telescope life-sized model is as big as a tennis court, and it's coming to the Maryland Science Center at Baltimore's Inner Harbor from October 14…
Astronomers Find Elusive Planets in Decade-Old Hubble Data
Finding these hidden gems in the Hubble archive gives astronomers an invaluable time machine for comparing much earlier planet orbital motion data to more…