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Hubble Spots Moon Around Third Largest Dwarf Planet

By Csaba Kiss | Konkoly Observatory, Donna Weaver/ Ray Villard | Space Telescope Science Institute, John Stansberry | Space Telescope Science Institute on May 19, 2017   Featured, Science/Education  

Hubble Spots Moon Around Third Largest Dwarf Planet

The combined power of three space observatories, including NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, has helped astronomers uncover a moon orbiting the third largest dwarf planet, catalogued as 2007 OR10. The pair resides in the frigid outskirts of our solar system called the Kuiper Belt, a realm of icy debris left over from our solar system’s formation 4.6 billion years ago. […]

Dawn Completes Primary Mission

By Elisabeth Landau | Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Jul 1, 2016   Featured, Science/Education  

Dawn Completes Primary Mission

On June 30, just in time for the global celebration known as Asteroid Day, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft completes its primary mission. The mission exceeded all expectations originally set for its exploration of protoplanet Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres. The historic mission is the first to orbit two extraterrestrial solar system targets, and the first to […]

Nearby ‘Dwarf’ Galaxy is Home to Luminous Star Cluster

By AFTAU on Jun 10, 2015   Featured, Science/Education  

Nearby ‘Dwarf’ Galaxy is Home to Luminous Star Cluster

A team of Tel Aviv University and UCLA astronomers have discovered a remarkable cluster of more than a million young stars are forming in a hot, dusty cloud of molecular gases in a tiny galaxy very near our own. The star cluster is buried within a massive gas cloud dubbed “Cloud D” in the NGC […]

NASA’s Hubble Finds Dwarf Galaxies Formed More Than Their Fair Share of Universe’s Stars

By J.D. Harrington | NASA, Ray Villard | Space Telescope Science Institute on Jun 20, 2014   Science/Education  

NASA’s Hubble Finds Dwarf Galaxies Formed More Than Their Fair Share of Universe’s Stars

  They may be little, but they pack a big star-forming punch. New observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope show small galaxies, also known as dwarf galaxies, are responsible for forming a large proportion of the universe’s stars. Studying this early epoch of the universe’s history is critical to fully understanding how these stars formed […]



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