Telescopes Team up to View Cosmic Collisions
NASA’s Frontier Fields is a program to capture new deep-field images across the electromagnetic spectrum, from X-rays to infrared light. NASA’s Great Observatories — the Hubble Space Telescope,...
View ArticleThe Final Frontier of the Universe
[Note: this article is cross-posted on the Hubble’s Universe Unfiltered blog.] Gravitational lensing in galaxy cluster Abell S1063 Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz (STScI) Fifty years ago, in 1966, the...
View ArticleBeyond the Frontier Fields: How JWST Will Push the Science to a New Frontier
The Frontier Fields Project has been an ambitious campaign to see deep into our universe. Gravitational lensing, as used by the Frontier Fields Project, enables Hubble to see fainter and more-distant...
View ArticleIt Takes a Team
There is no denying that the history we tell about science is full of achievements often credited to individual efforts. The reality, of course, is that scientific achievements are not done alone or...
View ArticleA Deep View Down Broadway
Abell 2744 Parallel Deep Field from the Hubble Frontier Fields ProjectCredit: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, and the HFF Team (STScI) [Note: this blog post also appears on the...
View ArticleThe Hunt for Jellyfish Galaxies in the Frontier Fields
Jellyfish galaxies, exotic galaxies with “tentacles” made of stars and gas, appear as though they are swimming through space. So far, astronomers studying the Frontier Fields have found several of...
View ArticleSharing the NASA Frontier Fields Story
NASA’s Frontier Fields program has reached a critical point. The observations by NASA’s Great Observatories (Hubble, Spitzer, and Chandra) are nearing completion, and the full data are nearly all...
View ArticleOn Beginnings, at the End
by Ray A. Lucas We recently finished taking data for the Hubble Frontier Fields project, and we’ve learned many very useful and exciting things, both about the universe and the objects in the images....
View ArticleSpotlight on Rachael Livermore, Postdoctoral Fellow, the University of Texas...
This occasional series focuses on members of the Frontier Fields team. It highlights the individuals, their jobs, and the paths they took to get to where they are today. Astronomer Rachael Livermore...
View ArticleA Sea of Galaxies in the Final Frontier Fields Views
The final observations of the Frontier Fields project are now in the books, although the hard work of analyzing the data has just begun. Views of the stunningly beautiful galaxy cluster Abell 370 and...
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