Hubble spots rogue planetary orbit in nearby star Fomalhaut

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 9, 2013, 19:54

Newly released NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of a vast debris disk encircling the nearby star Fomalhaut and a mysterious planet circling it.

NASA telescopes capture weather patterns in brown dwarf

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 9, 2013, 19:52

Astronomers using NASA`s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have probed the stormy atmosphere of a brown dwarf, creating the most detailed "weather map" yet for this class of cool, star-like orbs.

Hubble space telescope helps find most distant galaxy

Last Updated: Friday, November 16, 2012, 19:10

The object offers a peek back into a time when the Universe was only 3 percent of its present age of 13.7 billion years.

`Galaxies got dusty 800-mn-yrs after Big Bang`

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 14:31

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin are pursuing one of the largest Hubble Space Telescope projects to date, studying dust in thousands of galaxies over a wide range of cosmic time.

India to join project to build largest telescope

Last Updated: Sunday, April 22, 2012, 15:34

A budget of Rs 700 crore has been sanctioned to construct the world`s largest telescope.

Hubble captures detailed picture of Messier 9

Last Updated: Sunday, March 18, 2012, 17:43

Messier 9 is a roughly spherical swarm of stars that lies around 25 000 light-years from Earth.

NASA’s Hubble discovers quasars acting as gravitational lenses

Last Updated: Friday, March 16, 2012, 13:22

Quasars are among the brightest objects in the universe, far outshining the total starlight of their host galaxies.

Hubble zooms in on brightest ever galaxy

Last Updated: Friday, February 3, 2012, 13:40

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a uniquely close-up view of the brightest distant “magnified” galaxy discovered yet in the universe.

Hubble telescope spots dwarf galaxies

Last Updated: Friday, November 11, 2011, 10:56

NASA`s powerful Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a number of young dwarf galaxies brimming with star formation.

Hubble telescope finds disc around black hole

Last Updated: Sunday, November 6, 2011, 16:23

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope were able to find a distant dusty disc slowly spiralling into a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy.