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The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by a Space Shuttle in 1990 and remains in operation. A 2.4-meter (7.9 ft) aperture telescope in low Earth orbit, Hubble's four main instruments observe in the near ultraviolet, visible, and near infrared. The telescope is named after the astronomer Edwin Hubble.

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Stunning Horsehead nebula imaged in infrared

Mon, Apr 22, 2013

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Two fantastic space telescopes, Hubble and ESA’s Herschel, have teamed up to image one of the most popular astronomical sights in the sky, the “Horsehead” nebula, in infrared  as well as longer wavelengths to provide unprecedented insights as to what’s going on in this stunning star hatchery. Listed in catalogues under ”Barnard 33″, but better known [...]

Hubble takes brilliant picture of young star population in elderly company

Tue, Nov 6, 2012

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The great pics from Hubble just never end! This time, the brave telescope offered an impressive view of the center of globular cluster NGC 6362. The image of this spherical collection of stars takes a deeper look at the core of the globular cluster, which contains a high concentration of stars with different colors. Seeing [...]

Keep your children close – zombie planet roams once more

Fri, Oct 26, 2012

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The general consensus was that a star called Fomalhaut doesn’t host any planet. But astronomers, the thorough people they are, decided to take another look at it using the Hubble Space Telescope – and the results contradicted the everything, claiming that Fomalhaut does in fact have a planet, and furthermore, this planet (Fomalhaut b) is [...]

Quasars “snack” regularly, instead of “feasting in one gulp”

Wed, Jun 20, 2012

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Quasars are some of the brightest objects in the Universe. Their formed after black holes devour captured material, like  gas dust and stars that come too close, and release bright light that can be seen across the universe. Most of the popular astronomy today is orientated towards the particularly extremely bright quasars; those formed in a singular [...]

Astronomers use massive objects in space as huge telescopes, find brightest galaxy via gravity lens

Tue, Feb 7, 2012

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Whenever a massive object, with an equally massive gravitational pull, like black holes or galaxy clusters, falls between an observer, say a telescope, and a distant target in the background to be observed, than a gravitational lens is formed. Light emitted from the distant object gets twisted by the massive object, and ends up distorted [...]

Hubble captures photo of earliest galaxy cluster ever found

Sat, Jan 14, 2012

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The ever scientifically productive Hubble just came out with another gem that will help scientists unravel the mysteries of the Universe, after the telescope snapped a photo of a couple of galaxy far, far away, wrapped together in a cosmic dance which most likely led in  in the forming of a galaxy cluster – the [...]

Bright, rare galaxy from the dawn of the Universe glimpsed

Thu, Dec 22, 2011

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An array formed by the greatest space telescopes in the world  first discover, then photograph this ancient galaxy from the Universe’s dawn – the brightest such galaxy ever discovered by astronomers at such a distance. How far away you ask? Around 12,9 billion light years away, considering the Universe is estimated at 13.7 billion years [...]

Webb telescope may revolutionize science – but at an astronomic cost

Thu, Nov 24, 2011

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Despite budget cuts, NASA is currently working on a telescope so big and so powerful that it has every change of redefining our place in the Universe. We all know and love Hubble, and not just because of all the fantastic pictures; the Hubble telescope has helped us understand so much about the Universe we [...]

Spectacular spherical star cluster imaged by Hubble

Wed, Nov 23, 2011

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The ever faithful Hubble telescope has offered us yet another fantastic glimpse into the Universe’s hidden gems. Captioned below is the NGC 1846 globular cluster, which lies 160,000 light-years away in the constellation Doradus. The cluster is actually the product of the Large Magellanic Cloud, which neighbors our own Milky Way. Check out this very large, [...]

Hubble captures mind blowing footage of stars unleashing supersonic jets

Wed, Aug 31, 2011

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Using 14 years of images put together, astronomers have managed to animate the fantastic chaos that takes place inside the supersonic jets of newborn stars. Using pictures taken from 1994 to 2008 and a little image animation, NASA astronomers managed to put together these videos of supersonic jets being ejected out of stars. “We’r trying [...]

A novel way of measuring the size of the Universe

Wed, Jul 27, 2011

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The Universe is in constant expansion, which is why it is commonly said to be infinite, so basically one can measure all he wants and still won’t find out how big the Universe is. An accurate measurement of this rate of expansion, however, is critical for space observations, and a young Australian student has recently [...]

How many planets are in the Milky Way? Over 50 billion

Mon, Feb 21, 2011

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Yes, you’ve read that right. There are over 50 billion planets in our galaxy alone, according to the Kepler telescope, scientists now estimate that not only there are over 500 bilion planets in the galaxy, but that there are over 500 million life-cable planets out there as well. These numbers obviously come from Nasa’s own [...]

NASA’s 2012 budget – $18.7 Billion

Mon, Feb 14, 2011

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Earlier today Obama’s administration budget plan for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was proposed to $18.7 billion, at the same amount as in 2010, and puts predominance towards science research, exploration and commercial flight development. The $18.7 billion funding layout is $300 million less than the draft budget approved for 2011 in the NASA [...]

The Kepler mission: searching for planets in the Goldilocks area

Tue, Feb 1, 2011

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The Goldilocks area is one of the most interesting for astronomers throughout the known Universe, as it has great hope for finding planets similar to our Earth. The Kepler 10b planet is not the most hospitable one you could think of: located some 560 million light years away from our planet, and with a surface [...]

TD54 Asteroid Collision Causes Atom Bomb-like Effects

Thu, Oct 14, 2010

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Tuesday at 6:51 a.m. EDT (1051 GMT) a small asteroid dubbed TD54 passed the Earth dangerously close, above a section of Southeast Asia by Singapore, being at its closest 28,000 miles from our blue planet. The asteroid, 2010 TD54 was first discovered on October 9th, by scientists in Arizona at a NASA-sponsored lab. A few [...]

APOD Wallpaper software

Tue, Sep 21, 2010

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In case you don’t know, APOD is short for Astronomy Picture Of the Day. It’s home of some awesome astronomy pictures. Anyway, recently I came across this software that takes the latest APOD picture and sets is at your background, so you can see these great images each day, without lifting a finger. It also [...]

View our galaxy in different wavelengths – chromoscope

Tue, Jul 27, 2010

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This time I’m just going to present you with a little site I stumbled across that allows you to take a look at our galaxy, the Milky Way, in different wavelengths. Great stuff. Here is the link.

Hubble shows 2 galaxies that are just losing it

Thu, Oct 1, 2009

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Ram pressure is the pressure exerted on a body when it passes through a fluid medium; this causes a drag force that is exerted on the body. The same pressure appears when a galaxy is moving through an intergalactic gas, and in this case, the ram pressure can sweep a significant part of the intergalactic [...]

The rebirth of Hubble – Hubble’s first pics since Servicing Mission 4

Thu, Sep 10, 2009

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Hubble has had a lot of problems in recent days, but now the telescope we love the most is up an running, and in a great shape too. “This marks a new beginning for Hubble,” said Ed Weiler, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. “The telescope was given an extreme makeover [...]

Hubble takes amazing pictures of mammoth stars

Thu, Nov 27, 2008

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Two of the biggest and most impressive stars from our galaxy have been “surprised” in some really amazing poses by the the NASA/ESA Hubble telescope. Until now, a cloud of mystery surrounded them, but these pictures in greater detail than ever before. The pair of colossal stars (named WR 25 and Tr16-244, located within the [...]

Hubble Back In Business: Pair Of Gravitationally Interacting Galaxies

Mon, Nov 3, 2008

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A while ago we were a bit worried about the future of Hubble, but it seems the people at NASA managed to once again do an amazing job, so the most well known telescope is back in business, and up to big things actually. Just a few days after it was brought back online, it [...]

NASA doesn’t see a quick fix for Hubble

Mon, Oct 20, 2008

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Despite the fact that they have worked round the clock for fixing Hubble, it seems NASA engineers have once again hit a snag and they’re currently trying to figure out what is the next step. The telescope stopped sending pictures three weeks ago, and at first it was believed that it wouldn’t take that long [...]

Hubble Finds Unidentified Object in Space, Puzzles scientists

Tue, Sep 16, 2008

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It’s obvious for everybody that more and more interest is being put into space flights, and we’re approaching another era in this field. There’s a good reason why astronauts have it so hard and why they take so many chances; every once in a while, they find something that just bafflesc scientists and that’s impossible [...]

7 wonders of modern engineering

Thu, Sep 11, 2008

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In a previous article you had the chance to read about the seven wonders of the ancient world, which remained famous for thousands of years and still amaze people from all over the world due to their magnificent traits. But time passed and nowadays people take pride in other accomplishments, from scientific experiments to stadiums. [...]

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