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Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 expected back on line soon

10 January 2019 Astronomy Now

Engineers are optimistic they can safely return the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard the Hubble Space Telescope to normal operation after a fault 8 January.

Habitable worlds orbiting dwarf stars may not be commonplace after all

9 January 2019 Astronomy Now

Observations by the Hubble Space Telescope and ESO’s Very Large Telescope indicate processes that may limit the habitability of planets orbiting dwarf stars.

Hardware problem knocks Hubble camera off line

9 January 2019 Astronomy Now

Engineers are troubleshooting a hardware problem with the Wide Field Camera 3, one of the Hubble Space Telescope’s premier science instruments.

Most detailed view yet of M33 captured in Hubble mosaic

7 January 2019 Astronomy Now

A stunning mosaic made up of 54 Hubble Space Telescope images resolves nearly 25 million stars in the most detailed view yet of M33.

Caught in the act, a young star lights up surrounding nebula in veil of glory

5 January 2019 Astronomy Now

A hot young star about 15 times more massive than the Sun, nearing the translation to main sequence maturity, lights up its parent nebula in a blaze of ionised hydrogen.

The Helix Nebula’s amazing (and perplexing) structure

29 December 2018 Astronomy Now

The Helix Nebula is a familiar target to amateur astronomers, a dim, eyepiece-filling doughnut that belies the complexity revealed by spectacular images from the Hubble Space Telescope and other sensitive instruments.

A holiday “star wreath” from the Hubble Space Telescope

21 December 2018 William Harwood

In a holiday Hubble image, the Cepheid variable star RS Puppis, 10 times more massive than the sun and 200 times larger, shines in a wreath-like “gossamer cocoon” of dust, brightening and dimming over a 41.5-day cycle.

Filling in the blanks in Hubble’s ‘deep field’ view of cosmos

14 December 2018 Astronomy Now

A newly released “deep field” image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures galaxies during the epoch of massive star formation three billion years after the Big Bang.

M100 shows just how far Hubble has come since spherical aberration

14 December 2018 Astronomy Now

Twenty-five years ago this month, spacewalking astronauts installed corrective optics aboard the Hubble Space Telescope, correcting its famously blurred vision. Galaxy M100 was used to demonstrate the success of the repair, and the imagery has steadily improved since then.

Hubble spots thousands of globular clusters in Coma galaxy group

2 December 2018 Astronomy Now

Archived images collected by the Hubble Space Telescope across a variety of projects allowed astronomers to spot more than 22,000 globular clusters in the Coma galaxy cluster.