Tag: Hubble
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Happy Halloween from Hubble Telescope: Otherworldly ‘eyes’ glow in ghostly galaxy
This Hubble image of the merged galaxy known as AM 2026-424 was taken on June 19 in visible light by the Advanced Camera for Surveys. The system resides 704 million light-years from Earth. (NASA / ESA / UW / Dalcanton, Williams and Durbin) Now here’s something really scary for Halloween: Imagine two galaxies slamming into…
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Hubble gets snapshot of interstellar comet
Pictures captured by the Hubble Space Telescope show the second known interstellar object, 2I/Borisov, in all its cometary glory. The images were taken by the telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 on Oct. 12, when 2I/Borisov was 260 million miles from Earth. The object was discovered by Crimean amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov in August, and since…
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STS-400 – Remembering Endeavour’s first responder role during Atlantis’ Hubble Mission
Ten years ago, the crew of Shuttle Atlantis was in the final phase of their Servicing Mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. STS-125 was proceeding to plan and their vehicle was deemed to be in excellent condition for the return trip. However, had Atlantis suffered major damage during her launch to the telescope, Endeavour was…
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Hubble Space Telescope team hits ‘reset’ to get balky camera back to doing science
The Hubble Space Telescope gets its final close-up after a shuttle servicing mission in 2009. (NASA Photo) NASA says the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 is back to doing science observations, a week after it went dark due to a telemetry glitch. Basically, engineers hit the reset button to clear up the telemetry…
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Hubble Space Telescope’s team works to revive camera amid NASA shutdown
NASA astronaut Andrew Feustel, perched on the end of the shuttle Atlantis’ robotic arm, helps to install the Wide Field Camera 3 during 2009 spacewalk to perform work on the Hubble Space Telescope. (NASA Photo) Engineers are working to bring the Hubble Space Telescope’s wide-angle camera back into operation after a hardware problem knocked it…
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Hubble team has bad news for aliens: Red dwarfs seem to wipe out life’s necessities
An artist’s conception shows the red dwarf star AU Microscopii with a hypothetical planet and moon in the foreground. (NASA / ESA Illustration / G. Bacon) Red dwarf stars have been seen as the biggest potential frontier for alien life, in part because they’re the most common stars in our galaxy. But observations made using…
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Saving Hubble: Endeavour’s ambitious mission to rescue the famous space telescope
Twenty-five years ago today, arguably the most important Space Shuttle mission of the 1990s landed back at the Kennedy Space Center, concluding a daring, complex, and high-stakes rescue mission to save the Hubble Space Telescope. The mission was also largely symbolic of what NASA can accomplish and served as a restoration of the public’s confidence…
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Hubble is back at work after breakdown
The Hubble Space Telescope gets its close-up after a shuttle servicing mission in 2009. (NASA Photo) The Hubble Space Telescope is doing science again, three weeks after going out of service due to a gyro failure. In today’s mission update, NASA said the 28-year-old telescope conducted its first science observations since Oct. 5 overnight, focusing on…
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After encountering glitches, Hubble and Chandra space telescopes make recoveries
The Hubble Space Telescope hangs in orbit after a 2002 servicing mission. (NASA Photo) Things are looking up for two of NASA’s Great Observatories, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Both telescopes had to go out of service this month due to different types of problems experienced by their gyroscopic pointing systems.…
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Chandra X-ray telescope experiences a glitch; Hubble troubleshooting continues
An artist’s conception shows the Chandra X-ray Observatory. (NASA / CXC / SAO Illustration) Even as experts worked on ways to get the Hubble Space Telescope back doing science, another one of NASA’s Great Observatories in space — the Chandra X-ray Observatory — went into safe mode as well. NASA said the 19-year-old X-ray telescope put…