Hubble Space Telescope Discoveries
Beholding the birth and death of stars.
Hubble space telescope discoveries. Surveying the solar system. Dark matter which is invisible but reveals its existence via gravity makes up roughly 23 percent of the. The eagle nebula s pillars of creation.
Hubble discovered kerberos in 2011 and styx in 2012. The latest science from hubble. Get the latest updates on nasa missions watch nasa tv live and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind.
How old is the universe. Measuring the universe s expansion rate. Stars and galaxies like grains of.
Styx was found by scientists using hubble to search for. The rate of a universe expanding. The new discoveries joined pluto s large moon charon which was discovered in 1978.
Well into its third operational decade hubble is still extremely productive. Orbiting the earth since 1990 the hubble space telescope has helped to answer some of the most compelling astronomical questions of our time and uncovered mysteries we never knew existed. With vision that spans the ultraviolet through visible and into the near infrared hubble investigates everything from black holes to planets around other stars.
Researchers now know that the universe is about 13 7 billion years old. Nasa gov brings you the latest images videos and news from america s space agency. One of hubble s main tasks was to figure out the age and size of the universe.