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Monday, Sep 28
Planetary Radio Q and A: Who sees better, Hubble or ground-based scopes with adaptive optics?
This week's Planetary Radio looks at the Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment, or IRVE. On "Questions and Answers" I answered my this question: I read that adaptive optics can only be used for infrared, not visible wavelengths. Why is that? My answer comes from the European Southern Ob...
Wednesday, Sep 16
How does Hubble compare?
Apologies in advance for the number of acronyms in this post. There's no way to get around them. Last week when the new, post-servicing-mission-4 capabilities of Hubble were unveiled, I kept asking myself: How do Hubble's new capabilities compare to what it could do before the servicing m...
Wednesday, Sep 9
New Hubble images: News story with lots of pics now posted
Check out the news story I just posted on today's amazing image releases from Hubble!Blink comparison of visible and infrared Hubble images of Carina nebulaThe image of the colorful pillar, which was taken in visible light wavelengths, shows the tip of a 3-light-year-long structure o...
Tuesday, Sep 8
New Hubble images!
There were lots and lots of image goodies released today by the Space Telescope Science Institute in a press briefing meant to tout the success of the Hubble servicing mission conducted in May. Here's the full gallery. I'll be writing much more about this later today but thought I'd post a pr...
Monday, Aug 31
Planetary Radio Q and A: How do you make a mark on a planet made of gas?
This week's Planetary Radio features Linda Spilker on the current status of the Cassini mission and what it's been doing with equinox observations. On "Questions and Answers" I answered the question: "How could an asteroid make such a big mark on Jupiter when it doesn't have a solid surfa...
