He credits not only the astronauts on the repair flights but also the countless engineers and scientists on Earth who designed Hubble to be serviced, then devised new and more modern instruments ...

In addition to capturing visible light, modern telescopes have evolved to include instruments which gather ... it will be ...

"Every modern astronomy textbook includes contributions from Hubble." For 35 years ... to become one of the most scientifically productive instruments in history. From its vantage point 320 ...

Scientists have long puzzled over a discrepancy in how fast the universe is expanding, but new, sharper data from the James ...

Wilson observatories to Keck and La Silla, and now overhead as Hubble and Webb—aims massive mirrors and excruciatingly sensitive instruments ... a single dish.” Modern telescopes also ...

A new device uses quantum optics to filter out starlight in real time — bringing scientists closer to directly observing ...

as it is the last image that will use data from one of Hubble’s instruments, the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. This instrument was replaced by the newer Wide Field Camera 3 in 2009 ...

Astronomy Space photo of the week: Cotton candy clouds shine in one of Hubble's most beautiful images ever Astronomy Space photo of the week: Hubble zooms in on the glittering galaxy next door ...

It was an ingenious mode of attack (and one Hubble would employ to make his breakthrough discovery a few years later). In one of the great research expeditions in modern cosmology, Shapley had ...