Elizabeth first got interested in space after watching the movie Apollo 13 in 1996, and still wants to be an astronaut someday. Elizabeth is also a post-secondary instructor in communications and science since 2015. in Space Studies from the University of North Dakota, a Bachelor of Journalism from Canada's Carleton University and a Bachelor of History from Canada's Athabasca University. Her latest book, "Why Am I Taller?", is co-written with astronaut Dave Williams. Elizabeth's reporting includes multiple exclusives with the White House and Office of the Vice-President of the United States, an exclusive conversation with aspiring space tourist (and NSYNC bassist) Lance Bass, speaking several times with the International Space Station, witnessing five human spaceflight launches on two continents, working inside a spacesuit, and participating in a simulated Mars mission. She was contributing writer for for 10 years before joining full-time, freelancing since 2012. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook.Įlizabeth Howell (she/her), Ph.D., is a staff writer in the spaceflight channel since 2022 covering diversity, education and gaming as well. Hubble found a number of small atmospheric storms. This new Saturn image was taken during summer in the planet's northern hemisphere. The $10 billion telescope will be able to see the most distant and oldest galaxies and star clusters that formed in the first hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang, enabling astronomers to answer fundamental questions about the evolution of the universe.įollow Elizabeth Howell on Twitter. Saturn is truly the lord of the rings in this latest snapshot from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, taken on July 4, 2020, when the opulent giant world was 839 million miles from Earth. This glittering gathering of stars is the globular cluster NGC 6558, and it was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. Webb, which should release its first science-grade images on July 12, is located much farther away from Earth than Hubble and has a much larger mirror. Hubble Observes a Glittering Gathering of Stars. Knowing the true color of a star, along with its brightness, will better allow astronomers to estimate the age of individual stars of the globular cluster, ESA added.Īn even wider range of infrared capabilities will be available when NASA's James Webb Space Telescope comes online next month. Hubble telescope spots a complex cloud of gas expanding into space These star-forming spirals look like galactic UFOs Short lifespans - only tens of thousands of years as a luminous blue variable - make these stars fairly rare scientists have only identified a few dozen in our Milky Way and nearby galaxies.Įmail Meghan Bartels at or follow her on Twitter Follow us on Twitter and on Facebook.- The Hubble Space Telescope and 30 years that transformed our view of the universe AG Carinae, which scientists think is about 70 times more massive than the sun, may last perhaps 5 million or 6 million years. In the case of AG Carinae, that means outward pressure briefly overpowering gravity to spew material out into space, an outburst that stabilizes the star into balance again, more or less.īut even still, massive stars can only endure a certain number of such outbursts before running out of fuel. Within a star, the inward pressure of gravity and the outward pressure of radiation from the star typically balance, but in an unstable star, one occasionally wins out over the other. Astroscale U.S., Inc., a space junk removal and satellite servicing company, and Momentus Inc., a provider of space services, propose to launch a robotic vehicle that will attach to Hubble, boost. The outbursts, surprisingly, are a tactic to keep the star together, according to the ESA statement. Hubble orbits about 535 kilometers (332 miles) above Earth. It was launched into orbit by space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. The Hubble Space Telescope is a large telescope in space. This article is part of the NASA Knows (Grades 5-8) series. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble, Digitized Sky Survey 2. The 'Hubble Ultra Deep Field' shows many galaxies far from Earth. About 700 of those galaxies are new discoveries and some of the youngest ever observed. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the planetary nebula IC 289, located in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia. The sky around the star AG Carinae, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. The James Webb Space Telescope released a recent image that contains 45,000 galaxies.
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