FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 6 - The Untold Story

Look! Dazzling Hubble birthday image shows five galaxies bunched together

32 years after the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA is celebrating the occasion with a stunning photo of the Hickson Compact Group 40.

Inverse · Apr 20, 2022

Most distant star to date spotted – but how much further back in time could we see?

The Hubble Space Telescope has observed the most distant star ever seen – Earendel, meaning morning star. Even though Earendel is 50 times the mass of the Sun, and millions of times brighter, we would not normally be able to see it. We can see it due to an alignment…

The Conversation · Apr 4, 2022

Astronomers think they've just spotted an 'invisible' black hole for the first time

Astronomers famously snapped the first ever direct image of a black hole in 2019, thanks to material glowing in its presence. But many black holes are actually near impossible to detect. Now another team using the Hubble Space Telescope seems to have finally found something nobody has seen before: a…

The Conversation · Feb 7, 2022