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Hubble Space Telescope

This image released by NASA on October 19, 2022, shows the Pillars of Creation, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope in near-infrared-light view. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI via AP)
October 20, 2022, 4:27 pm
Webb telescope captures 1st ever star-filled picture of iconic ‘Pillars of Creation’
‘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
By AFP
NASA engineer Ernie Wright looks on as the first six flight ready James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror segments are prepped to begin final cryogenic testing at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. (NASA/MSFC/David Higginbotham/Wikipedia)
January 5, 2022, 6:21 am
Space is changing. Webb is just the start, says ex-Israeli who was in from its dawn
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
By Haviv Rettig Gur
In this image released by NASA, Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope onboard, lifts off on December 25, 2021, at Europe's Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana (NASA via AP)
December 25, 2021, 2:59 pm
World’s most powerful telescope blasts off to scour the universe for hints of life
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
By Marcia Dunn
The Hubble Space Telescope, left, orbiting the Earth and an illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope, right. (NASA via AP)
December 25, 2021, 11:40 am
How does the veteran Hubble compare to the new Webb space telescope?
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
By Marcia Dunn
In this image released by NASA, Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope onboard, is rolled out to the launch pad, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021, at Europe's Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
December 25, 2021, 11:38 am
Hubble telescope’s more powerful successor to soar into space
James Webb Space Telescope will seek out the faint, twinkling light from the first stars and galaxies, providing a glimpse into cosmic creation
By Marcia Dunn
This artist's rendering shows Exoplanet K2-18b, foreground, its host star and an accompanying planet in this system. (M. Kornmesser/ESA/Hubble via AP)
September 12, 2019, 3:13 am
For first time, water, right temperatures found on potentially habitable planet
Exoplanet 110 light-years away has temperatures conducive to life, but scientists say conditions still vastly different from Earth
By Marcia Dunn
Prof. Avi Loeb in his Harvard office. His computer wallpaper features a photo of Proxima Centauri, the closest known star to our Sun. (Rich Tenorio/Times of Israel)
July 19, 2019, 8:57 pm
Israeli Harvard astronomer has an inalienable gravitation to interstellar study
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
By Rich Tenorio
This illustration provided by Dan Durda shows the exoplanet Kepler-1625b with a hypothesized moon. On Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018, two Columbia University researchers reported their results that the potential exomoon would be the size of Neptune or Uranus. The exoplanet, about 8,000 light-years away, is as big as Jupiter. (Dan Durda via AP)
October 4, 2018, 6:23 am
Have astronomers found 1st moon outside our solar system?
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
By Marcia Dunn
Jeffrey Hoffman reads from the Torah aboard the space shuttle Columbia during a 1996 mission. (Courtesy of Hoffman)
December 30, 2016, 6:00 am
Space Torah: When the creation story flew back into the firmament
To read the divine among the stars, three holy scrolls have made the journey to outer space; only two returned safely
By Rich Tenorio
In this photo provided by NASA, New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, Colo., left, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) Director Ralph Semmel, center, and New Horizons Co-Investigator Will Grundy of the Lowell Observatory hold a print of a US stamp with their suggested update since the New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto, at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md. on Tuesday, July 14, 2015. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
July 15, 2015, 5:14 am
Pluto up close: Spacecraft achieves flyby, then calls home
Hailed by NASA as ‘hallmark in human history,’ US becomes first nation to probe all nine planets
By Marcia Dunn
NASA engineer Ernie Wright looks on as the first six flight ready James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror segments are prepped to begin final cryogenic testing at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. (NASA/MSFC/David Higginbotham/Wikipedia)
April 22, 2015, 8:14 am
Most powerful space telescope ever to launch in 2018
James Webb Space Telescope, 100 times more powerful than Hubble, will observe the universe’s first galaxies
By Jean-Louis Santini
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