Image Archive: Miscellaneous

Stowed JWST at Northrop Gruman

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0200

This image shows the fully stowed JWST in Northrop Grumman’s cleanroom facility in Redondo Beach, CA.

Hubble 31th anniversary

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 16:34:15 +0200

The NOIRLab/IPAC/ESA/STScI/CfA FITS Liberator 4 development team

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 21:00:00 +0100

The NOIRLab/IPAC/ESA/STScI/CfA FITS Liberator 4 development team.

ESA/Hubble Tweets inviting people to the Twitter Q&A’s

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:09:24 +0100

ESA/Hubble Tweets inviting people to the Twitter Q&A’s.

ESA/Hubble Twitter number of followers over time

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:08:51 +0100

ESA/Hubble Twitter number of followers over time.

JWST Cycle 1 Proposal Submissions Received by Country

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:08:39 +0100

JWST Cycle 1 Proposal Submissions Received by Country.

Hubble Publications

Mon, 22 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0200

This graph details the Hubble Space Telescope’s publication results from 1991 to 2018.

The JWST MasterClass workshops

Mon, 22 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0200

Hubble 30th anniversary

Fri, 31 Jan 2020 10:34:04 +0100

This graphic advertises the 30th anniversary of Hubble.

To find out more visit the anniversary webpage.

Hubble’s Observation of Comet 2I/Borisov in October 2019

Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:00:00 +0200

On 12 October 2019, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observed Comet 2I/Borisov at a distance of approximately 420 million kilometres from Earth. The comet is believed to have arrived here from another planetary system elsewhere in our galaxy.

Screenshot of the HCV Explorer tool

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 16:29:00 +0200

Screenshot of the HCV Explorer tool.

Figure 3: New transients in the HCV

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 16:27:00 +0200

HCV light curves of the newly discovered multi-filter transients in the fields of NGC 3314 (top), MACSJ1149.5+2223-HFFPAR (middle), and NGC 4258 (bottom).

Screenshot of the HCV Explorer tool

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 16:27:00 +0200

Screenshot of the HCV Explorer tool. Variability index plot in context with filter ACS_F555W, group 1043384,subgroup 1 and source 94575740 selected.

Figure 2: AGN Variability in the CANDELS Fields

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 16:27:00 +0200

HCV light curves of three variable sources in the CANDELS fields: a quasar in GOODS-North (upper panel), a Seyfert-1 in GOODS-South (middle panel), and a new variable AGN in EGS (lower panel).

Figure 1: Variables in the Local Group dwarf galaxy IC 1613

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 16:27:00 +0200

The HCV catalogue contains many groups with deep observations obtained over multiple visits, making them appropriate for long-term variability studies of active galactic nuclei (AGN), from the most luminous point-like quasars to low-luminosity AGN. The HCV catalogue contains 179 multi-filter variable candidates in the five CANDELS fields (GOODS South, GOODS North, COSMOS, EGS, and UDS).

This image shows three example light curves of variable sources in the CANDELS fields that are classified via spectroscopy as AGN — HCV light curves of : a quasar in GOODS-North (upper panel), a Seyfert-1 in GOODS-South (middle panel), and a new variable AGN in EGS (lower panel).

Bethany Downer - ESA/Hubble Public Information Officer

Wed, 15 May 2019 09:56:00 +0200

Bethany Downer became the public information officer for ESA/Hubble in March 2019, taking over from Mathias Jäger. The role involves producing and managing the content of spacetelescope.org including pictures of the week, science and photo press releases, newsletters, and award-winning Hubblecasts, as well as liaising with journalists, the public, universities and research institutions, press offices, and researchers.

Still from Hubblecast 113

Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:00:00 +0200

Still from Hubblecast 113 about Nancy Roman — the mother of Hubble.

Our Place in Space — Kosmische Zwangsläufigkeiten #2

Tue, 31 Jul 2018 09:11:37 +0200

The work Kosmische Zwangsläufigkeiten #2 was conceived by the artist couple Payer Gabriel. At the centre of their observations are events that resist any plannability. The work is based on the hypothesis of the biochemist and Nobel Prize winner Christian de Duve that life is subject to necessity: Life inevitably arises when (accidentally) certain conditions are fulfilled. Even intelligence and consciousness thus become inevitable forms of expression of all matter. Consequently, life in all its complexity must evolve throughout the universe.

This installation was created for the Hubble travelling exhibition Our Place in Space in Vienna.

Our Place in Space — The Great Wall

Tue, 31 Jul 2018 08:48:28 +0200

On the largest scales galaxies in the Universe are distributed in arcs and filaments, creating a net-like structure. For her work The Great Wall, the artist Monica LoCascio was inspired by the idea of this cosmic web — the representation of large-scale structures in the Universe as a network. The installation explores how structures form in space and is based on astronomical data from the BOSS (Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey) Great Wall, a complex of several galaxy clusters about 5 billion light-years from Earth. The work allows a subjective view of connections and distances: Although the shining galaxies are separated by unimaginable distances, they are held together by dark matter. This allows us to follow the growth of the largest structures in our Universe.

This installation was created for the Hubble travelling exhibition Our Place in Space in Vienna.

Our Place in Space — ARGOS

Tue, 31 Jul 2018 08:20:47 +0200

Yunchul Kim's ARGOS takes processes and methods of scientific research and mixes them into an artistic experience. The fireworks of flashing lights visible in his installation correspond to real time detection of muons reaching Earth's surface.

Muons are created by decay of cosmic radiation in the upper atmosphere. Cosmic rays can come from a variety of sources in space; but most of them are high-energy remnants of supernovae explosions. Every time a muon collides with one of the 41 Geier-Müller counters in the ARGOS installation, a light flashes.

The installation is part of the Hubble travelling exhibition Our Place in Space.

Our Place in Space — ARGOS

Tue, 31 Jul 2018 08:19:44 +0200

The installation is part of the Hubble travelling exhibition Our Place in Space.

Our Place in Space — The Mirrored Universe

Tue, 31 Jul 2018 08:16:18 +0200

In the installation The Mirrored Universe artists Margit Busch and Solmaz Farhang construct a scenario in which a person has disappeared in a completely inexplicable way. Only a mysterious room, a small strange laboratory filled with strange equipment, was left behind. The only indication of what could have happened are measurements of unusual disturbances of electromagnetic waves in the centre of Vienna. The installation invites visitors to engage in the fictional story of this person, who apparently worked on nothing less than a reconstruction of the Universe: The investigators have recovered some of the instruments in the abandoned laboratory and are now trying to make sense of what they found. The results of these speculations are on display.

The installation was created for the Hubble travelling exhibition Our Place in Space in Vienna.

Our Place in Space — The Mirrored Universe

Tue, 31 Jul 2018 08:15:33 +0200

The installation was created for the Hubble travelling exhibition Our Place in Space in Vienna.

Our Place in Space — The Mirrored Universe

Tue, 31 Jul 2018 08:14:18 +0200

The installation was created for the Hubble travelling exhibition Our Place in Space in Vienna.

Our Place in Space — Welcome Home Hubble

Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:58:44 +0200

In the video installation Welcome Home Hubble, created by the artists Eleni Boutsika-Palles and Anna Lerchbaumer the boundaries between fact and fiction become blurred. The installation creates a future in which the Hubble has reached the end of its life. The controlled re-entry into the atmosphere and the details and consequences of this mission served as inspiration for this work.

The video installation stages a speculative narrative in which Hubble is shown as a technological pop star. A look into the future, a few years after its re-entry, follows the surviving parts found on the coast of the Vanuatu Islands. What effects do the fragments have on the site of discovery? What is its economic, cultural and political value?

This installation was created for the Hubble travelling exhibition Our Place in Space in Vienna.