Hubble Space Telescope

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2010 - The most amazing thing to come out of NASA has been the images from the Hubble Space Telescope. At least to this pair of eyes that were electrified with IMAX's presentation of the Hubble repair and impact.

By Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff Best Display of Mars From Earth in 6 Years on Wednesday On Jan. 27, Mars will be closer to Earth than any other time between 2008 and 2014. A mere 60 million miles away, the red planet will be a... Best Display of Mars From Earth in 6 Years on Wednesday

By Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff This image of the elliptical galaxy NGC 1132 and its surrounding region combines data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. The blue/purple in the image is the x-ray glow from hot, diffuse gas detected by Chandra. Hubble's data reveal a giant foreground el...

Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 21, 2010 - As part of its Hubble Heritage program, NASA has released an image, taken by a team led by University of Arizona astronomer Rodger Thompson, of a galaxy that resembles a snowflake.

By Alexis Madrigal Not all spiral galaxies look or behave alike, as this new image from the Hubble Space Telescope of the unusual galaxy NGC 2976 shows. With this new detailed view, astronomers were able to use the brightness and color of its stars to reconstruct the galaxy’s history. The galaxy, which is loc...

By Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff Tatsuya Inui is part of a team that used results from Japan’s Suzaku and ASCA X-ray satellites, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton X-ray Observatory, to determine the history of our black hole.

By Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff Equipped with three cameras including SPIRE, the Herschel Space Observatory was launched in May 2009 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. The spacecraft -- about one and one-half times the diameter of the Hubble Space Telescope -- is orbiting nearly 1 million miles from Earth.

By Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff Using the 100 inch telescope at Chicago's Yerke's Observatory Edwin Hubble found that the timing of the Cephid in Andromeda carried a startling message: it was 900,000 light years away, ten times beyond the edges of the Milky Way. All prior measurements in history till that moment in late...

Daily News & Analysis In August this year, Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope made the deepest image ever of the Universe in near-infrared wavelengths using its new set of eyes, ... and more »

By Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff The Hubble Space Telescope image above indicates that a huge ring of dark matter surrounding the center of galaxy cluster CL0024+17 located in Pisces. The many spectacular galaxies are part of CL0024+17 itself, typically appearing tan in color along with...

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By Ron Cowen, Science News Researchers still use data generated by the now-defunct IRAS to guide high-resolution observations by large infrared telescopes. In the same way, WISE, which relies on a relatively small 40-centimeter telescope, is expected to provide an avalanche of data to help target searches by m...

How Hubble Could Spot Quantum Foam blog) Zane5100 : I'm afraid I must point out that the space telescope is spelled "Kepler." jimmytidey : The mechanical energy added to the oceans by the wind and ...

By Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff The flare-up in a jet of matter blasting from a monster black hole this past April is giving astronomers an incredible light show. Hubble Space Telescope image shows a 5000 light-year long jet being ejected from the active nucleus of... The flare-up in a jet of matter blasting from a monster bl...

Thanks to the Hubble space telescope and the more recent Planck space observatory launched by the European Space Agency, astronomers can now see the ...

By Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff We're building a billion dollar telescope and it isn't just aimed at the stars: it's looking for the first ones. The new Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) proves that sometimes bigger really is better and will be elements in the optics... We're building a billion dollar telescope and it isn't just...

By Hadley Leggett Image 1: Grodent/Hubble Space Telescope Team; HST program GO-10862, May 2007. Image 2: Grodent/Hubble Space Telescope Team; HST Program GO-10140, PI: Denis Grodent (ESA Univeristy of Liege), filter F125LP, exposure time 110 sec, April 2005.

By Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff ALMA is a giant, international observatory composed initially of 66 high-precision telescopes, operating at wavelengths of 0.3 to 9.6 mm. The ALMA antennas will be electronically combined and provide astronomical observations which are equivalent to a single large telescope of treme...

By Betsy Mason The Thirty-Meter Telescope will surpass even the Hubble Space Telescope in some ways, giving scientists a new view of some of the oldest stars and galaxies in the universe, as well as planets orbiting nearby stars. Other giant telescope projects include the Giant Magellan Telescope met...

An aging space shuttle sidled up to an aging Hubble Space Telescope — both past their presumed expiration dates when they were designed — and gave each other a boost. The Hubble telescope has given the world incredible photographs of outer space, ...

By Chris Bergin Atlantis to rollback to VAB on October 20 - Hubble troubleshooting latest As NASA and the SSP (Space Shuttle Program) refine their...Hubble switchover efforts to Side B completed - Suffers more problems The complicated task of remotely switching the Hubble Space Telescope...STS-125 launc...

By Chris Bergin “1. Rate Sensor Units/2 Gyros each unit; 2. Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC-3) installation; 3. SIC&DH R&R; 4. Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) installation; 5. Battery Modules R&R for Bay 3 and Bay 2; 6. Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) or Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS...

 FL The flight was the second space launch of the year for China, coming eight days after the launch of a new navigation satellite. The official embroidered patch for mission STS-125, the space shuttle's last planned service call to the Hubble Space ...

By Chris Bergin Highlighting the ever-fluctuating nature of the Space Shuttle Program (SSP), STS-129 was originally scheduled to fly with Discovery; however, delays to the Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission forced NASA to realign its downstream flight manifest - resulting in an orbiter swa...

By Alexis Madrigal The Hubble is located in a debris-ridden area that's three times riskier than the orbit the International Space Station flies in. Given the difficult environment, it seemed the final Hubble service mission would be the first in 58 shuttle launches to exceed the 1 in 200 risk threshold.

 FL Picture a throw pillow with your child's drawing, curtains adorned with photos from the Hubble telescope or a retro apron made from a scan of a vintage fabric. Designs can be created using Photoshop or one of several free design programs. ...

By Chris Bergin Moreover, given that the Hubble Space Telescope’s orbit is inclined to a different azimuth than that of the International Space Station, Atlantis’ launch trajectory will preclude the use of two normally available Trans-oceanic Abort Landing (TAL) sites - Istres, France and Zaragoz...

By Alexis Madrigal Now that we've shown that it works, we can use it on a whole set of observations from the archive to see if a planet is hidden in the images," said astronomer David Lafreniere of the University of Toronto, a member of the team that made the find.

By Alexis Madrigal Now that we've shown that it works, we can use it on a whole set of observations from the archive to see if a planet is hidden in the images," said astronomer David Lafreniere of the University of Toronto, a member of the team that made the find.

By Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff The new and improved algorithm will affect both past and future - as well as re-examining the old records to find more worlds we didn't see that we'd seen, the upgraded technology will have major effects on future space observatory missions, both in terms of what they find and the level of o...

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By Clara Moskowitz Image: NASA, ESA, and K. Barbary (University of California, Berkeley/Lawrence  Berkeley National Lab, Supernova Cosmology Project) File this one under: Things that go flash in the night. While conducting a routine search for distant supernovae, astronomers observed a bright burst o...

By Clara Moskowitz File this one under: Things that go flash in the night. While conducting a routine search for distant supernovae, astronomers observed a bright burst of light that they can’t account for. On Feb. 21, 2006, the Hubble Space Telescope first...

By Julianne J. Dalcanton After several decades of planning, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was launched in 1990 as the first of NASA’s Great Observatories. After a rocky start arising from an error in the fabrication of its main mirror, it went on to change forever many fields of astronomy, and to capture the pub...

By Randy Alfred 1924: Astronomer Edwin Hubble announces that the spiral nebula Andromeda is actually a galaxy and that Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in the universe. When the 200-inch Mount Palomar telescope was completed in January 1949, Hubble was honored to be the first astronomer to use it. He...

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By Chris Bergin Atlantis’ trip to service the Hubble Space Telescope remains on track for May, although another key milestone meeting is due in early January to discuss the status of the replacement Hubble hardware - which is still undergoing testing. An alternative launch date in November remains an o...

By Clara Moskowitz The unequivocal signature of water vapor has been found on a planet beyond our solar system. Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers detected the steamy signature of water vapor in the light coming from a large exoplanet circling around a...

Malaysia StarScience Center offers Hubble photo exhibition  - By The Tribune-Review The traveling exhibition "Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe" opens Saturday at the Carnegie Science Center, North Side. Mission to fix Hubble Telescope postponed CNN

By Chris Bergin “Manifest Options: The Hubble Space Telescope team continues to evaluate their schedule for delivery of requalified spare hardware for launch on STS-125 to recover science operations,” noted Tuesday’s 8th Floor News (HQ memo).

A feature documentary looking back at 15 years of astronomical history: the inception, challenges and scientific contributions of the Hubble Space Telescope.

By Chris Bergin With the switchover on Hubble upcoming, the SSP (Space Shuttle Program) is hoping to make a decision within the next few weeks on the actual flight order. Discovery’s STS-119 team will then discuss requirements - should STS-125 move to February - for taking over as the unique STS-401 role.

By Geoff Fox The Hubble Space Telescope is amazing. I don't throw out compliments like that freely. I'm not a NASA fanboy. Hubble has changed astronomy and unlocked secrets we could have never imagined. If that was the whole story Hubble would be impressive. Yet Hubble's real strength is its designed-in a...

By editor@aero-news.net SpaceX celebrates two major milestones over the weekend. NASA scrubs a shuttle mission to repair the Hubble telescope. And a new study says biz-jet sales will peak next year. Sponsored By...

By news@vanderbilt.edu (Vanderbilt News Service) In this edition of Stellar Conversations, Charlie Bolden, veteran of four space flights, gives an insider's look at what it takes to launch the space shuttle. Bolden logged more than 680 hours in orbit, assisted in deploying the Hubble Space Telescope, and commanded the first mission th...

By Earth & Sky Radio Series An image from the Hubble Space Telescope is helping astronomers understand the ghostlike appearance of Marin 1, the largest spiral galaxy.

By info@universetoday.com (Fraser Cain) 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...

By info@universetoday.com (Fraser Cain) 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...

By info@universetoday.com (Fraser Cain) 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...