Hubble's 28^th Anniversary

Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Music credit: "Struggling in the City" by Emre Ramazanoglu [PRS], Jamie Michael Bradley Reddington [PRS], and Patrick Green [PRS]; Atmosphere Music Ltd [PRS]; BLOCK; Killer Tracks Production Music Time-lapse sequenceHubble's observations of Neptune's shrinking dark storm. Left inset is a monochromatic image of just the blue filter, and right inset is a color image combining the blue, green, and red filters. For the first time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured time-lapse images of a large, dark storm on Neptune shrinking out of existence. A recent Hubble program called Outer Planets Atmosphere Legacy, or OPAL, provides yearly global maps of our gas giant planets, allowing planetary scientists to view changes in formations such as Neptune's dark storms.Read the full story on NASA.gov.View the full image release at HubbleSite.org.Find the science paper here.Additional resources: Neptune imagery - JPL PhotojournalVoyager b-roll - NASA Image and Video LibraryOPAL information and data - OPAL websiteVoyager information - voyager.jpl.nasa.gov Related pages

Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Music credit: "Deep Groove" by Danny McCarthy [ASCAP] and Thomas Dill [ASCAP]; Soundcast Music SESAC; Chronic Trax; Killer Tracks Production Music Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have conducted the first spectroscopic survey of Earth-sized planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system's habitable zone. Hubble reveals that at least the inner five planets do not seem to contain puffy, hydrogen-rich atmospheres similar to gaseous planets such as Neptune. This means the atmospheres may be more shallow and rich in heavier gases like carbon dioxide, methane, and oxygen.Find the full story and press release at hubblesite.org.Read the joint Hubble and Spitzer findings on nasa.gov.The science paper is available from Nature Astronomy. Related pages

Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Music credit: "Space Cake" by Donn Wilerson [BMI] and Lance Sumner [BMI]; Killer Tracks BMI; Killer Tracks Production Music. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope observed the farthest-discovered active inbound comet, Comet K2. K2 came from the distant Oort Cloud and is visiting our inner solar system for the first (and only) time. Since we're seeing it so far away, past the orbit of Saturn, K2 is still in its early phase of activity, likely making it the most primitive comet anyone has ever seen.Read the web story on nasa.gov.Download the Hubble images on HubbleSite.org.Read the science paper here. Related pages

Music credit: "High Heelz" by Donn Wilkerson [BMI] and Lance Sumner [BMI]; Killer Tracks BMI; Killer Tracks Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. Animated graph - Visible and infrared lightcurve of the star/black hole N6946-BH1 Animated graph - Visible lightcurve of the star/black hole N6946-BH1 with Hubble image insets A team of astronomers at The Ohio State University watched a star disappear and possibly become a black hole. Instead of becoming a black hole through the expected process of a supernova, the black hole candidate formed through a "failed supernova." The team used NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes and the Large Binocular Telescope to observe and monitor the star throughout the past decade. If confirmed, this would be the first time anyone has witnessed the birth of a black hole and the first discovery of a failed supernova. Read the NASA web feature here.Find the full image release package at HubbleSite.org.Read the full science paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Related pages