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Hubble Space Telescope

NASA Invites Public to Choose Hubble's Next Discovery

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is giving everyone the opportunity to use the world's most celebrated telescope to explore the heavens and boldly look where the Hubble Space Telescope has never looked before.





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Refurbished Hubble Space Telescope Ready to Resume Mission of Explorat

Refurbished Hubble Ready to Resume Exploration

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Hubble Space Telescope has been with us for nearly two decades. In that time, its breathtaking images have captured people’s imaginations and its groundbreaking science has revealed some ...


Saturn Stars in Three Hubble Movies

Saturn Stars in Three Hubble Movies

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created Mar 20, 2007 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Photogenic Saturn has now become a movie star.


Hubble Photographs a Planetary Nebula to Commemorate Decommissioning of Super Camera

Hubble Photographs a Planetary Nebula to Commemorate Decommissioning of Super Camera

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created May 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. In tribute to Hubble's longest-running optical ...


Exploding star in NGC 2397

Exploding star in NGC 2397

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created Mar 31, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

NGC 2397, pictured in this image from Hubble, is a classic spiral galaxy with long prominent dust lanes along the edges of its arms, seen as dark patches and streaks silhouetted against the starlight. Hubble’s ...


Hubble Pinpoints Record-Breaking Explosion

Hubble Pinpoints Record-Breaking Explosion

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created Apr 11, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (42) | comments 1

Researchers working at the University of Warwick, with colleagues in Leicester University, ESA and NASA, have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to pin point what remains of what was the brightest naked-eye ...


Hubble captures rare Jupiter collision

Hubble captures rare Jupiter collision

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created Jul 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

For the past several days the world's largest telescopes have been trained on Jupiter. Not to miss the potentially new science in the unfolding drama 580 million kilometres away, Matt Mountain, director of ...


Hubble zooms in on heart of mystery comet

Hubble zooms in on heart of mystery comet

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created Nov 15, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (31) | comments 1

Astronomers have used Hubble’s powerful resolution to study Comet Holmes’ core for clues about how the comet brightened. The orbiting observatory’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) monitored the comet ...


Hubble Space Telescope resting in the Space Shuttle Discovery?s cargo bay, in 1999

Hubble: a time machine that revolutionized astronomy

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created May 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 2

The Hubble space telescope, the object of NASA's fifth and last servicing mission next week, is a veritable time machine that has revolutionized humankind's vision and comprehension of the universe.


LCROSS

Hubble observes LCROSS impact: Preliminary analysis shows no clear evidence for hydroxyl

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created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made a series of observations immediately preceding and following the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Centaur rocket stage and shepherding ...


Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble telescope to get last tuneup during International Year of Astronomy

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created Dec 31, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

From troubled beginnings nearly 18 years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy and its stunning images have stirred the imaginations of people around the globe.



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