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Universe Today (www.universetoday.com) has great Hubble Space Telescope news, photos, videos and more
Wednesday, Dec 9
Very First Image of a Very Hot Star
NGC 6302) has been taken by a team of astronomers at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, using the newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope. ...
Saturday, Dec 5
For Christmas – Don't Think Nintendo Wii… Think Celestron Omni
It is a core telescope – able to recognize many the same Cosmic delights as the Hubble Telescope, just as it reveals what you can find in an old pair of ...
Friday, Nov 27
Podcast: Edwin Hubble
You might know the name "Hubble" because of the Hubble Space Telescope. But this phenomenal observatory was named after one of the most influential ...
Monday, Nov 23
The Extremely Large Telescope
looking at the sky in optical wavelengths and 100 times more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope – despite being a ground-based observatory. ... and more »
Sunday, Nov 22
Ring of Stars in Centaurus A Uncovered
Previous images of the galaxy from the Spitzer Space Telescope, the ESA's Infrared Space Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope revealed some aspects of ... and more »
Thursday, Aug 6
Kepler Scores its First Exoplanet Sighting
By staring at one large patch of sky for the duration of its lifetime, Kepler will be able to watch planets periodically transit their stars over multiple cycles, allowing astronomers to confirm the presence of planets and use the Hubble and Spitzer ...
Wednesday, Aug 5
Hubble, Gemini Spot 'Hyperactive' Stars in Small, Young Galaxies
Researchers spotted the galaxies with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the 8-meter Gemini South telescope in Chile. Hubble revealed that the galaxies are a fraction the size of most galaxies we see today, and Gemini clocked their speed by using ...
Tuesday, Jul 28
Altman: Augustine Commission Allowing Constellation Program to ...
Photo: Nancy Atkinson Astronaut Scott Altman, commander of the recent servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope said the independent review of NASA's current plans is allowing both the space agency and the nation to step back, contemplate and ...
Stunning Image of ISS and Endeavour Transitting Sun
If you remember, Legault also took images of space shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope transiting the sun back in May during the HST servicing mission. Stupendous Sun Transit Photo Of The ISS + Endeavour SatNews Publishers all 2 news articles
Tuesday, Jun 16
5 Spinoffs from the Hubble Space Telescope
As we wait (impatiently) for the Hubble Space Telescope to return to action following its repair and updating by the STS-125 astronauts, it is easy to think about how Hubble has impacted society. Hubble has become a household name, bringing astronomy ...
Friday, May 22
More Stunning Images From the Hubble Servicing Mission
Canada Since then, as I'm sure you know, the astronauts have completed two more evas, released Hubble and are waiting for the weather to improve in Florida so they can land. So, let's get caught up with the latest images released by NASA. ...
Friday, Oct 10
ExoFly: Future Space Exploration Super Hero?
A Mars ExoFly would need a longer wingspan and carry a miniaturized high-resolution digital video camera, sensors, navigation system and instruments. © nancy for Universe Today, 2008. | Permalink | One comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags:
Thursday, Jun 14
No Stars Shine in This Dark Galaxy
They have now performed a high resolution observations of VIRGOHI21 using the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT), to better pin down the quantities of neutral hydrogen gas. They also did followup observations with the Hubble Space Telescope, looking for any evidence of star...
Tuesday, May 22
Our Lonely Future, 3 Trillion Years From Now
Another powerful tool that astronomers use to know the Universe is the cosmic microwave background radiation; the afterglow from the Big Bang. The light from these early moments of our Universe has already been red shifted to longer and longer wavelengths with the expansion of the Unive...
Friday, May 18
Book Review: Pluto and Beyond
Great riches can buy you a yacht, a mansion or even an observatory. Percival Lowell went for the later and thus, still today, there is the privately owned Lowell Observatory. This facility forms the basis for the topics in Anne Minard’s book, Pluto and Beyond – A Story of Discovery, Adversit...
Wednesday, May 16
Carnival of Space #3
L. Riofrio from A Babe in the Universe was working on a story of how Hubble proved that the Universe was expanding and Einstein’s cosmological constant was a blunder. As the story was posted, a huge fire broke out threatening the observatory.
Tuesday, May 8
How Dark Matter Might Have Snuffed Out the First Stars
They would be very large, with a core radius larger than 1 AU (the distance from the Earth to the Sun), so they might be candidates for gravitational lensing experiments. These observations use the gravity from nearby galaxies to serve as an artificial telescope to focus the light from a mo...
Wednesday, Dec 14
Podcast: Universe Today - Dark Matter Maps
What's the Universe made of? Don't worry if you don't have a clue, astronomers don't either. The Universe is dominated by a mysterious dark matter that seems to form the true mass of a galaxy, not the regular matter - like stars and planets - that we can actually see. Dr. James Jee from Johns Hopk...
Thursday, Jun 30
Podcast: Universe Today - Interview with Story Musgrave
How many times have I been to space? Well, I lost count at, oh, none. So I, and nearly every other human being on Earth can't compare with Story Musgrave, a legendary NASA astronaut who flew on the space shuttle six times, including leading the team that fixed the Hubble Space Telescope's vis...
Wednesday, May 25
Podcast: Universe Today - Microlens Planet Discovery
Professional astronomers have got some powerful equipment at their disposal: Hubble, Keck, and Spitzer, just to name a few. But many discoveries rely on the work of amateurs, using equipment you could buy at your local telescope shop. And recently, amateurs helped discover a planet orbi...
