Hubble Telescope Current Affairs, GK & News
Deployment of James Webb Telescope
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 and European Space Agency. It was launched in Ariane rocket. The unfolding of the telescope ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2022
Category: International Current Affairs • Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Ariane 5 • Big Bang • Big Bang Nucleosynthesis • Canadian Space Agency (CSA) • European Space Agency (ESA) • Exoplanet • Galaxies • Hubble Space Telescope • Hubble Telescope • Infrared telescopes • James Webb Telescope • Lagrange point • NASA • Neutron stars • Space Telescope • White Dwarf Star
First Magnetic Field on an Exoplanet
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 the first time. Key Points A magnetic field around the planet explains the observations of ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2021
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Exoplanet • First Magnetic Field on an Exoplanet • Hubble Space Telescope • Hubble Telescope
LHS 1140b: Another planet in habitable zone discovered
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 to a habitable zone where the temperature is neither too high nor too low. The ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2017
Topics: Exoplanet • Goldilocks Zone • Hubble Telescope • James Webb Space Telescope • NASA • Science and Technology
Hubble Space Telescope detects Great Balls of Fire
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 away from Earth. Red giants are dying stars that are nearing the end of their ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2016
Topics: Astronomy • Hubble Telescope • NASA • National • Science and Technology • Space technology
Hubble Telescope spots solitary dwarf galaxy UGC 4879
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a mysterious solitary dwarf galaxy known as UGC 4879. The galaxy is smaller and messier than its cosmic cousins and lacks the majestic swirl of a spiral or the coherence of an elliptical. Key findings The galaxy UGC 4879 is very isolated and consists of a scattered drizzle of ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2016
Topics: Hubble Telescope • NASA • Science and Technology • Solitary Galaxy • space