A mysterious spiral of doom — okay, just a spiral-shaped galaxy — has been captured in a new image by the Hubble Space Telescope. …read more
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Hypnotic Space Spiral Imaged by Hubble Telescope
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Scientists Catch An X-Ray Eclipse Of A Planet Where It Rains Glass
Earlier this month, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope studied exoplanet HD 189733b and determined that it was a deep blue color, thanks to silicates in its atmosphere that can create storms akin to raining glass. …read more
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The Secret Science of the Hubble Space Telescope's Amazing Images
With the Hubble Space Telescope’s successor on schedule to reach outer space in 2018, taking Hubble’s place as NASA’s premier eye in the sky, it seems appropriate to look back on what may become Hubble’s most enduring legacy: its stunning images. …read more
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Hunch Leads Astronomer to New Neptune Moon
By Rob Quinn
An astronomer poring over old images from the Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a previously unknown 14th moon of Neptune. SETI Institute researcher Mark Showalter—who has five other moon discoveries to his name—followed a hunch while studying ring segments around the planet and tracked a white dot to… …read more
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Hubble And SETI Find A New Moon Around Neptune
In 1989, Voyager 2 did a detailed survey of Neptune, its rings, and its moons. But it missed something, all those years ago – Neptune’s 14th moon, which NASA announced has been discovered in photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. …read more
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New Neptune Moon Discovered As Astronomers Stumble Upon Planet’s Smallest (IMAGES)
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Astronomers may have thought they had already detected all the satellites orbiting Neptune. They were wrong.
As one keen-eyed astronomer recently pointed out, images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope show that Neptune has another moon. Senior research scientist Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute, the private California-based organization, first discovered the new Neptune moon on July 1.
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Spiral Galaxy NGC 3627
(Phys.org) —The spiral galaxy NGC 3627 is located about 30 million light years from Earth. This composite image includes X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope (red), and optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Very Large Telescope (yellow). The inset shows the central region, which contains a bright X-ray source that is likely powered by material falling onto a supermassive black hole. …read more
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New Horsehead Nebula Image Shows Remarkable Depth | Video
In celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope‘s 23rd year in orbit, astronomers captured an infrared image of the famous collapsing interstellar cloud. Located in the Orion constellation, it is one of the most recognizable objects in the night sky.
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Observationally confirmed supernova explosion of a yellow supergiant star
Observational results of the Hubble Space Telescope announced in March 2013 confirmed the theoretical prediction by the Bersten team at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe that the yellow supergiant star found at the location of supernova SN 2011dh in the famous nearby galaxy M51 was indeed the star that exploded. …read more
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Are our textbooks wrong? Astronomers clash over Hubble's legacy
Edwin Hubble’s contributions to astronomy earned him the honor of having his name bestowed upon arguably the most famous space telescope (the Hubble Space Telescope, HST). Contributions that are often attributed to him include the discovery of the extragalactic scale (there exist countless other galaxies beyond the Milky Way), the expanding Universe (the Hubble constant), and a galaxy classification system (the Hubble Tuning Fork). However, certain astronomers are questioning Hubble’s pre-eminence in those topics, and if all the credit is warranted. …read more
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Astrophoto: Beautiful new look at the Orion Nebula
The enormous cloud of dust and gas that makes up the Orion Nebula is featured in this beautiful astrophoto. This image was a joint effort, with images taken by Gary Gonnella – a regular on our Virtual Star Parties – and image editing by Paul Hutchinson. Paul used the “Hubble Palette” – named for the Hubble Space Telescope and its capability of imaging in very narrow wavelengths of light using various filters. This enables astrophotographs to reveal details of objects in space that can’t be seen by the human eye. Here, the filters used produced different colors: were Hydrogen Alpha=Green, S=Red, O=Blue. Paul said he combined two exposures, a 1 minute and 10 second exposure, to reduce the blow-out in the bright center of the nebula. The results are striking! …read more
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Plastic wrapped Shuttle Atlantis slated for grand public unveiling in June
Imagine visiting Star Fleet headquarters in the 23nd Century and being engulfed by a holodeck journey to a 21st century NASA Space Shuttle; complete with a full sized Hubble Space Telescope – perhaps the important science instrument ever constructed and an outstanding legacy of the Space Shuttle Program. …read more
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Hubble Space Telescope Readies Dawn Of Time Deep Field Encore
By Bruce Dorminey, Contributor For more than two decades now, the Hubble Space Telescope has served up some of the most spectacular images ever made.
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NASA Readies Addition To Fleet Of Communication Satellites | Video
It has been 10 years since NASA added to its fleet of TDRS communication satellites, and the soon to launch TDRS-K will be the seventh satellite providing crucial communications between the Earth, satellites, ISS, and Hubble Space Telescope.
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Do What You Love: The Hubble Astrophysicist
Mario Livio is a scientist working on the Hubble Space Telescope, a successful author and a lover of art. He tells us how he found a way to do what he loves for a living and how you can, too.
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Astronomers find massive supply of fresh gas around modern galaxies
(Phys.org)—Galaxies have a voracious appetite for fuel—in this case fresh gas, but astronomers have had difficulty finding the pristine gas that should be falling onto galaxies. Now scientists have provided direct empirical evidence for these gas flows using new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. Their observations using Hubble’s two ultraviolet spectrographs, the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph and the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, show large quantities of cool gas with very low quantities of heavy elements in the gaseous cocoons surrounding modern galaxies. The lack of heavy elements indicates this gas in the “circumgalactic medium” of the galaxies has not been strongly processed through stars. Their work, “The Bimodal Metallicity Distribution of the Cool Circumgalactic Medium at z
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The farthest supernova yet for measuring cosmic history
In 2004 the Supernova Cosmology Project based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory used the Hubble Space Telescope to find a tantalizing supernova that appeared to be almost 10 billion light-years distant. But researchers had to wait years until a new camera was installed on the Hubble before they could confirm the spectrum and light curve of supernova SCP-0401—the supernova furthest back in time useful for precise measures of the expansion history of the universe.
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NASA's Hubble telescope spies galaxies near Cosmic Dawn
Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have gotten a look at seven galaxies that were created when the universe was very young.
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