Today marks the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990 on the Space Shuttle Discovery. Despite a problematic start to its career – it was made with a defective mir...
So here I am, Christmas break over, waiting in Cardiff Airport for my flight back to civilization. I thought I’d take the opportunity to share this wonderful picture, courtesy of the Hubble Spa...
https://telescoper.blog/2020/01/06/the-largest-known-spiral-galaxy-ugc-2885/
Here I am, only connecting again. Almost every day I get a spam message from a certain person who thinks he can determine the Hubble constant from first principles using biblical references. Th...
I was too busy yesterday to write a post about the latest hot news from the NASA Hubble Space Telescope, so here’s a quick catch-up. It seems that Europa, the smallest of the four Galilean moon...
https://telescoper.blog/2016/09/27/the-possible-plumes-of-europa/
Back in the office after one Friday off and there’s the inevitable queue at my door and mountain of things that just have to be done immediately. Yeah, right.. Anyway, I couldn’t resit a shor...
https://telescoper.blog/2016/03/07/a-galaxy-at-redshift-11-1/
Preoccupied with getting ready for my talk in Bath I forgot t post an item pointing out that yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope. Can it really be so ...
https://telescoper.blog/2015/04/25/a-happy-hubble-coincidence/
This afternoon I gave three hours of lectures on the trot, so I’m now feeling more than a little knackered. Before I head home for an early night, though, I thought I’d share this amazing vid...
https://telescoper.blog/2015/01/20/andromeda-in-high-resolution/
In an attempt to get away from the horrors of the last few days I thought I’d offer this video I just found on Youtube. It features majestic, life-affirming music from the 2nd Movement of Beeth...
Too busy for a full post today, so here’s a little stocking filler. The, perhaps familiar, pictures are taken by the Hubble Space Telescope but the music is by noted astronomer (geddit?) Sir Wi...
https://telescoper.blog/2014/11/20/hubble-images-with-music-by-herschel/
Courtesy of freelance science writer Bruce Lieberman, whom I met briefly at the recent “Origin of the Expansion of the Universe” meeting in Flagstaff, AZ, here’s a plug for two live webca...
https://telescoper.blog/2012/09/29/cosmolog-webcasts-coming-up/