Hubble Telescope

James Webb telescope: Discovery of water on distant planet

July 19, 2022

James Webb Telescope will help in discovery of water on distant planet. This telescope will help the researchers in measuring the chemical makeup of atmospheres of planets across other stars. Researchers hope that, one or more of the planets will show chemical signature of ..

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Giant Magnellan Telescope

February 7, 2022

The Giant Magnellan Telescope is under construction. It will have resolving powers ten times the Hubble Space Telescope. Key Features Giant Magnellan Telescope is extremely large telescope. That is, the aperture of the primary mirror is between 20 metres and ..

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Deployment of James Webb Telescope

January 11, 2022

The James Webb telescope was launched by NASA on Christmas eve. The telescope can unfold only when it is in the orbit. The telescope succeeds Hubble telescope. About James Webb Telescope It was jointly developed by NASA, Canadian Space Agency ..

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First Magnetic Field on an Exoplanet

December 31, 2021

Recently, a team of astronomers used data from the Hubble Space Telescope for discovering the signature of a magnetic field on an Exoplanet. The findings were described in the journal called Nature Astronomy. Such a feature has been seen on an exoplanet, for ..

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LHS 1140b: Another planet in habitable zone discovered

April 20, 2017

Astronomers have discovered yet another planet, called LHS1140b, which is expected to be present in the Goldilocks Zone. It’s not so far away, either. It is found orbiting around the star LHS 1140 some 39 light-years away. Goldilocks Zone refers ..

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Hubble Space Telescope detects Great Balls of Fire

October 10, 2016

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has detected Great Balls of Fire (GBF), a mysterious super-hot blobs of gas seen near a dying star. The plasma gas balls were observed near a red giant called V Hydrae, about 1,200 light years ..

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