Nancy Grace Roman was one of the first women to work at NASA and a central figures in the development of the Hubble Telescope. She was born in Nashville, Tennessee on May 16, 1925. As a child, she was drawn to the study of outer space.’I was just fascinated.’ Roman said in a short NASA … Read more
The Hubble space telescope has captured the clearest images yet of comet ATLAS and found it has shattered into dozens of pieces each at least the size of a house. The comet was discovered by the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) robotic astronomical survey system in Hawaii in December 2019. It became incredibly bright … Read more
To mark its 30th anniversary the Hubble Space Telescope team have released a stunning new image captured by the satellite showing a vast star-forming region. Named the ‘tapestry of blazing starbirth’, the new image brings together the nebula NGC 2014 and its neighbour NGC 2020 – both about 163,000 light years from Earth. They are … Read more