Tag: Hubble Space Telescope
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Hubble Space Telescope salutes ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ with cosmic lightsaber
An image from the Hubble Space Telescope focuses on jets of hot gas blazing forth from a protostar in the middle of a dusty cloud known as Herbig-Haro 24. (Credit: NASA / ESA) Leave it to the scientists behind the Hubble Space Telescope to capitalize on the craziness over “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” Their…
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It’s a first: Hubble scientists successfully predict supernova’s ‘instant replay’
The red circles on this image from the Hubble Space Telescope indicate the three spots where flashes from Supernova Refsdal showed up at different times. The middle circle indicates the spot where it was last observed on Dec. 11. (Credit: NASA / ESA / GLASS / Frontier Fields / CLASH) Astronomers traced one of the…
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Hubble shows Pluto’s moons don’t know which end is up
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Pluto and its five known moons. Credit: NASA/STScI/Mar Showalter As NASA’s New Horizons probe closes in on Pluto, the Hubble Space telescope has been scouting its retinue of five known moons, discovering that at least two are tumbling chaotically in the complex gravity of the dwarf planet and…
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High-flying tune-ups gave us the Hubble generation
STORY WRITTEN FOR ASTRONOMY NOW & USED WITH PERMISSION The Hubble Space Telescope in the payload bay of space shuttle Atlantis during the last servicing mission in May 2009. Credit: NASA You can thank thousands of thinkers — unafraid to get their hands dirty — for the steady diet of discoveries and jaw-dropping vistas produced by the…
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Astronomers hopeful Hubble will make it to 30th anniversary
STORY WRITTEN FOR ASTRONOMY NOW & USED WITH PERMISSION The Hubble Space Telescope after deployment from space shuttle Columbia during a 2002 servicing mission. Credit: NASA More than five years after a final shuttle servicing mission — and a quarter of a century since its launch in April 1990 — the Hubble Space Telescope is operating in…
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Fixing Hubble’s blurry vision
STORY WRITTEN FOR ASTRONOMY NOW & USED WITH PERMISSION Hubble’s view of the M100 galactic nucleus before (left) and after (right) repairs to correct the telescope’s deformed mirror. Credit: NASA/STScI/JPL Ed Weiler knew he was about to walk into the lion’s den. It was June 27, 1990, and Weiler, the chief scientist with the Hubble Space Telescope…
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Hubble Space Telescope marks 25 years in orbit
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronauts aboard space shuttle Atlantis captured this view of the repaired Hubble Space Telescope after the final shuttle servicing mission to the observatory in 2009. Credit: NASA What do the “Fast and Furious” movies and the Hubble Space Telescope have in common? They both require the…