Hubble Space Telescope

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 Alexis Madrigal Hubble Catches Galaxies Stripping — Ram Pressure Stripping, That …Hubble Snaps Image of Triple Galaxy, as Ordered by the People …Hubble Snaps Fantastic Galaxy CollisionHubble Goes Deep, Finds Farthest Galaxies Yet‘When Galaxies Collide’- 59 New Hubble Images ReleasedHubble Capt...

Paris, France (ESA) Nov 20, 2009 - The evolution of bulges in the centres of spiral galaxies puzzles astronomers. A recent NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 4710 is part of a survey that has been conducted to learn more about the formation of bulges, which are a substantial compo...

Washington DC (SPX) Nov 20, 2009 - Two key instruments from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have a new home in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington after being returned to Earth aboard space shuttle Atlantis last May.

By Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff Titanic Thirty Meter Telescope Will See Deep Space More Clearly The 30 Meter Telescope, with a primary mirror the size of a blue whale, is part of a new generation of super powerful ground-based telescopes. Scheduled for completion in 2018,... Titanic Thirty Meter Telescope Will See Deep Sp...

By Alexis Madrigal A new multi-telescope image has revealed the beauty of the center of the Milky Way across the electromagnetic spectrum. The Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes teamed up with the Chandra X-ray Observatory to provide a glimpse of our galaxy that shows far more than our human eyes can see. Th...

By Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff The center of the magnificent barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512 reveals a stunning 2,400 light-year-wide circle of infant star clusters. Astronomers generally believe that the giant bar, which is too faint to be seen in this image, funnels the gas... Courtesy: Hubble/NASA

Boston MA (SPX) Nov 11, 2009 - In celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, NASA's Great Observatories - the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory - have collaborated to produce an unprecedented image of the central regi...

Baltimore MD (SPX) Nov 09, 2009 - The spectacular new camera installed on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 in May has delivered the most detailed view of star birth in the graceful, curving arms of the nearby spiral galaxy M83.

By Betsy Mason The Hubble Space Telescope’s new camera is returning incredibly detailed, stunning images of space. This close-up view of an area near the core of the iconic Southern Pinwheel galaxy, or M83, shows very rapid star birth. The image to the right of the entire galaxy, taken from the ground by t...

Paris, France (SPX) Oct 30, 2009 - The combination of images taken by three exceptional telescopes, the ESO Very Large Telescope on Cerro Paranal , the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla observatory and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, has allowed the stunning Jewel Box s...

By Hadley Leggett This stunning image of the Kappis Crucis Cluster, nicknamed the “Jewel Box,” was one of the last gifts from a retiring camera on the Hubble Space Telescope. Just before NASA brought the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 back to Earth in mid-2009, it snapped this photo of the core of the NGC 4755 s...

By Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff The vast nebula NGC 604 above in the Triangulum galaxy is a Hubble Space Telescope image. Though such nebulae are common in galaxies, this one is nearly 1,500 light-years across -so vast it is easily seen in ground-based telescopes. At...

By Chris Bergin After nearly two years, orbiter Atlantis is set to make her return to the International Space Station (ISS) in November following her extremely successful flagship mission (STS-125) to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in May 2009. However, meetings have been taking place on Wednes...

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.

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...

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 Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff The Pistol Nebula, one of the intrinsically brightest stars in our galaxy, appears as the bright white dot in the center of this image taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) were needed...

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...

Laboratory EquipmentAstronomers See A New Class of Black Hole FLATOW: Can you look at it with the Hubble? Can you tell anything from the Hubble space telescope? Dr. FARRELL: Well, we're hoping we can, actually. Astronomers find new kind of black hole United Press International

When the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis released the Hubble Space Telescope to return to orbit, concluding the final astronaut mission to upgrade and repair Hubble, astronomy fans around the world rejoiced. Hubble, renewed and equipped with new ...

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 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...

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By Clara Moskowitz When it does eventually get off the ground, the planned servicing mission is set to run 11 days, with five spacewalks during which astronauts will work to install a new camera, a new spectrograph, and a set of six new and improved gyroscopes, which help stabilize the telescope. The astrona...

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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 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...