Cosmology

Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have developed this simulation of the head-on collision of our Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy. Estimated to occur in 4 billion years.  

While astronomy and cosmology have made amazing advances in the last century, many deep mysteries remain. The staff of Science magazine consulted among themselves and spoke to professional researchers. The result: they identified eight areas ...  

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD – NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the spiral galaxy known as ESO 498-G5. One interesting feature of this galaxy is that its spiral arms wind all the way into the center, so that ESO 498-G5′s core looks like a bit like a miniature spiral galaxy. [...]  

Paris (ESA) May 16, 2012 A partnership with the UK's Faulkes Telescope Project promises to boost the Agency's space hazards research while helping students to discover potentially dangerous space rocks. ESA's Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme is keeping watch over space hazards, including disruptive space weather, debris objects in Earth orbit and asteroids that pass close enough to cause concern. The as  

The Large Area Telescope (LAT), built by SLAC for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, collects information on high-energy gamma rays from numerous sources in the sky. Among these are small, elusive objects called pulsars, which spin up to hundreds of...  

Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s proposed FINESSE space telescope may not hunt for exoplanets, but it will find out what they’re made of. (...)Read the rest of JPL Wants To FINESSE Info From Exoplanets (236 words) © Jason Major for Universe Today, 2012. | Permalink | One comment | Post tags: exoplanets, FINESSE, JPL, planets, space telescope, [...]  

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is soliciting information to conduct market research to improve its understanding regarding the current state-of-the-art of available telescopes and/or telescope prototypes. NASA is seeking broad ...  

"As a kid, one time, I got a telescope as a gift," the owner of Burnaby-based Canadian Telescopes says. "I was hooked." Looking at the sky through a telescope is much more intimate and personal than seeing images taken from the Hubble Space Telescope ...