Hubble finds new moon around Pluto

Written by: William Atkins | Published in: SpaceThe tiny moon P5 was discovered by astronomers in June/July 2012 using the NASA Hubble Space Telescope. This brings the total number of moons around the dwarf planet Pluto to five.

Researchers at Southwest Research Institute have used the Hubble Space Telescope to take images of the dwarf planet Pluto. Because of its tilt to the Sun, its atmosphere actually freezes and falls to the ground, forming large molasses-colored patches. Why? Don’t know yet. But, New help is just over the Horizon!

April 2010 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope. To honor the vast accomplishments of this telescopic pioneer in space-based astronomy, NASA and Abrams Books have collaborated with the illustrated book “Hubble: A Journey Through Space and Time.”  

The planet Venus made an once-in-a-lifetime transit of the Sun last week, but a French astrophotographer got exceptionally lucky because he also photographed the Hubble Space Telescope crossing the Sun at the same time.

On February 2, 2011, NASA announced that its Kepler space telescope found its first Earth-size planet. In fact, it found five Earth-size planets all orbiting about one star, Kepler-11.

How about a planet that acts like a comet! The Hubble Space Telescope has found planet HD 209458b. NASA says it is a gas giant that is so close to its star—about 4 million miles away—that its atmosphere is escaping into space so fast that the created winds look like a sweeping tail of a comet.  

NASA scientists discovered that the Moon's Shackleton crater, which is about three billion years old, contains ice, as found out by its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.

{loadposition william08}The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is an orbiting spacecraft that NASA sent to the Moon to analyze the lunar surface. A team of NASA scientists used laser light from the altimeter onboard LRO to

The NASA GRAIL probe will be inserted into orbit about the Moon over the 2011 New Year’s weekend for its mission to precisely map the gravitational field of the Moon. NASA states that the twin satellites will improve our knowledge of the Moon by hundreds of times.