Space Telescope
Hubble Catches Jupiter's Largest Moon Going to the 'Dark Side'
Ganymede completes an orbit around Jupiter every seven days. Because Ganymede's orbit is tilted nearly edge-on to Earth, it routinely can be seen passing in…
Hubble finds carbon dioxide on an extrasolar planet
Organic compounds can also be a by-product of life processes and their detection on an Earth-like planet may someday provide the first evidence of life beyond…
A Celestial Snow Globe of Stars
This glittering metropolis of stars is easily found in the winter sky in the constellation Hercules and can even be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark…
The Strangulation of Spiral Galaxies
Galaxy Zoo, which uses volunteers from the general public to classify galaxies and the Space Telescope A901/902 Galaxy Evolution Survey (STAGES) projects have…
‘Missing link’ galaxies discovered
The STAGES study led by the University’s Centre for Astronomy and Particle Theory examines galaxy evolution using images from the Hubble Space Telescope.A…
Hubble Resolves Puzzle about Loner Starburst Galaxy
Now NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has helped astronomers solve the mystery of the loner starburst galaxy, called NGC 1569, by showing that it is one and a half…