Because It’s Friday – Choosing one image out of 1.5 million, Ada Lovelace and Christmas Shopping

carina nebula

Back to space this week for Because It’s Friday. Over the 32 years in space the NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken over 1.5m observations. Someone has to choose the best. Watch Dr Ken Carpenter get excited over this amazing image of the Carina Nebula. The image at the top …

Because It’s Friday – Something from 11 billion years ago

supernova

The Hubble telescope captured three images of a supernova exploding – this was strange as they are three separate moments of the explosion, in the same frame thanks to gravity lensing as described by Einstein. This explosion happened 11 billion years ago – it’s time travel again. Hubble Captures 3 …