The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/hubble-space-telescope/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:11:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png Hubble Space Telescope | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/hubble-space-telescope/ 32 32 Webb telescope captures 1st ever star-filled picture of iconic ‘Pillars of Creation’ https://www.timesofisrael.com/webb-telescope-captures-1st-ever-star-filled-picture-of-iconic-pillars-of-creation/ Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:27:28 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2855708 'Ejections from stars that are still forming' seen in image of gigantic gold, copper and brown columns in the midst of the cosmos, 6,500 light years from Earth

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]]> Space is changing. Webb is just the start, says ex-Israeli who was in from its dawn https://www.timesofisrael.com/space-is-changing-webb-is-just-the-start-says-ex-israeli-who-was-in-from-its-dawn/ Wed, 05 Jan 2022 04:21:25 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2675413 Michael Kaplan, who shepherded the telescope through its planning stages before temporarily living in Israel, talks space robots, baby galaxies, and the pitfalls of Israeli bravado

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]]> World’s most powerful telescope blasts off to scour the universe for hints of life https://www.timesofisrael.com/worlds-most-powerful-telescope-ever-blasts-off-into-space/ Sat, 25 Dec 2021 12:59:07 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2672097&preview=true&preview_id=2672097 Decades in the making, NASA's $10 billion James Webb telescope sets off on unprecedented quest; will travel to destination more than four times beyond the moon

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]]> How does the veteran Hubble compare to the new Webb space telescope? https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-does-the-veteran-hubble-compare-to-the-new-webb-space-telescope/ Sat, 25 Dec 2021 09:40:56 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2672043 Device scheduled for launch on Saturday is seen as a successor to the 32-year-old Hubble Space Telescope, which gave mankind awe-inspiring images of the universe

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]]> Hubble telescope’s more powerful successor to soar into space https://www.timesofisrael.com/decades-in-the-making-hubble-telescopes-more-powerful-successor-to-soar-into-space/ Sat, 25 Dec 2021 09:38:52 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2672069 James Webb Space Telescope will seek out the faint, twinkling light from the first stars and galaxies, providing a glimpse into cosmic creation

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]]> For first time, water, right temperatures found on potentially habitable planet https://www.timesofisrael.com/water-found-on-potentially-habitable-planet-for-the-first-time/ Thu, 12 Sep 2019 00:13:46 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2146959 Exoplanet 110 light-years away has temperatures conducive to life, but scientists say conditions still vastly different from Earth

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]]> Israeli Harvard astronomer has an inalienable gravitation to interstellar study https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-harvard-astronomer-has-an-inalienable-gravitation-to-interstellar-study/ Fri, 19 Jul 2019 17:57:04 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2112010 On the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Prof. Avi Loeb defiantly holds out hope that humanity will encounter other forms of life in the universe

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]]> Have astronomers found 1st moon outside our solar system? https://www.timesofisrael.com/have-astronomers-found-1st-moon-outside-our-solar-system/ Thu, 04 Oct 2018 03:23:58 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1935660 Columbia University researchers believe they have discovered a large moon, about the size of Neptune or Uranus, orbiting a planet 8,000 light-years away from Earth

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]]> Space Torah: When the creation story flew back into the firmament https://www.timesofisrael.com/space-torah-when-the-creation-story-flew-back-into-the-firmament/ Fri, 30 Dec 2016 04:00:39 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1501620 To read the divine among the stars, three holy scrolls have made the journey to outer space; only two returned safely

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]]> Pluto up close: Spacecraft achieves flyby, then calls home https://www.timesofisrael.com/pluto-up-close-spacecraft-achieves-flyby-then-calls-home/ Wed, 15 Jul 2015 02:14:58 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1215762 Hailed by NASA as 'hallmark in human history,' US becomes first nation to probe all nine planets

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]]> Most powerful space telescope ever to launch in 2018 https://www.timesofisrael.com/most-powerful-space-telescope-ever-to-launch-in-2018/ Wed, 22 Apr 2015 05:14:07 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1170964 James Webb Space Telescope, 100 times more powerful than Hubble, will observe the universe's first galaxies

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