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The Hubble telescope continues its series of amazing pictures with one that ensured the most accurate analysis of a far galaxy ever performed. The image embedded in this article presents the photography taken by the device, which resembles an eye, or, more precisely, a stylized image of the eye of Ra, the Egyptian go... |
9 October 2008
11:03 GMT |
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The smallest of the Kuiper Belt Objects remain elusive for all the searches attempted over the past few years. Finding some would help explain a number of theories related to the solar system's formation and evolution. Since the icy ring of frozen bodies known as the Kuiper Belt was discovered beyond Neptun... |
4 October 2008
07:29 GMT |
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A few days ago, NASA officials announced that the recent mishap that affected the Hubble Space Telescope on Saturday, September 27th, prevented the servicing mission scheduled for October 14th from taking place. Instead, the mission is currently moved to next year, until the problem is dealt with.The Hubble trouble l... |
1 October 2008
09:34 GMT |
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Besides providing extraordinary pictures of the universe, Hubble sometimes likes to play with scientists' minds. Recently, it did it again, as the photos it sent showed a sudden light in the middle of nowhere which lasted for about 100 days before fading into darkness again. Surely, even with instruments l... |
16 September 2008
07:10 GMT |
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Images provided by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the collision between Jupiter's Great Red Spot and the Third Red Spot has all but destroyed the latter. All that was left behind was only a deformed and pale structure that is likely to be sucked completely into the giant anticyclone that has been... |
19 July 2008
05:54 GMT |
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As predicted when it was first discovered on May 9 this year, Jupiter's third red giant storm collided last week with the Great Red Spot and the Red Spot. The outcome of the event is not known yet, since Jupiter's position on the night sky impeded astronomers from carrying out any conclusive observations. "... |
10 July 2008
04:10 GMT |
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There's a reason why the Hubble telescope was placed in orbit around Earth, and it's a pretty good one too. The lack of any interference from the planet's atmosphere allows it to see objects that modern ground-based telescopes probably never will - such as a newly discovered galaxy that seems to be fil... |
9 July 2008
02:54 GMT |
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The particular image featured here, showing what appears to be a large ribbon of gas floating through our galaxy, shows in fact only a small section of a much larger circular structure originating from a supernova explosion that took place somewhere in the spring of 1006 A.D., dubbed SN 1006. The progenitor star, a w... |
1 July 2008
10:30 GMT |
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On May 31, 2008 the Discovery space shuttle was launched into space from the Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in the STS-124 mission destined to deliver the second section of the massive Japanese space laboratory Kibo to the International Space Station. All went well during liftoff and afterwards, a... |
13 June 2008
06:31 GMT |
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The Coma Cluster, or Abell 1656, is a spherical galactic cluster about 20 million light years across located at about 300 million light years towards the north pole of the Milky Way, meaning it is relatively easy to view from Earth since the dust and gas plane of the galaxy doesn't interfere. The cluster contain... |
10 June 2008
11:21 GMT |
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The mission originally targeted the flight to the Hubble Space Telescope at the end of August, but delays related to the time required to build the external liquid fuel tanks of the shuttle have now pushed the date to October 8. The crew of seven participating in the mission will fly on board NASA's Atlantis spa... |
23 May 2008
07:08 GMT |
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A huge colony of ants is reportedly chewing its way to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, destroying computer networks and even cars. The invasion may pose a security risk for the space center, which relies on electronics for its research, and the government agency has already called for exterminator suppor... |
16 May 2008
03:07 GMT |
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You think SMS is cheap? Check this out. According to University of Leicester space scientist Dr Nigel Bannister, sending a message via SMS is more expensive than downloading data on the Hubble Space Telescope. To be more exact, it's about four times more expensive to send a text message - which by the way costs ... |
12 May 2008
10:14 GMT |
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The Hubble Space Telescope, currently operated by the NASA/ESA collaboration, celebrates 18 years since it was launched into space. In order to mark this moment, the Hubble collaboration is now launching the vastest amount of individual images ever released at once for public use - 59 new images - presenting dramatic... |
24 April 2008
10:42 GMT |
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Server downtime and maintenance are not the only factors that sometimes block users from reaching their favorite webpages. It's true that server and hosting technical problems are the main reasons the websites fail to load, but researchers have unveiled another mysterious possibility that prevents you from reach... |
9 April 2008
04:16 GMT |
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When completed, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will have the ability of scanning the whole night sky every three days, thus keeping the track of asteroids that pass through the vicinity of Earth, observing supernova explosions and maybe even dark matter and dark energy. The observatory is due to be completed by ... |
8 April 2008
11:09 GMT |
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More than eighteen years after it was launched into space, the Hubble Space Telescope is still the spearhead of our space exploration program, systematically mapping and bringing new and wondrous insight into what we call home, our universe. Recently, the Walters Art Museum has organized an exposition named "Maps: Fi... |
10 March 2008
10:17 GMT |
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Engineers evaluating the space shuttle's Atlantis readiness said yesterday that it will most likely launch tomorrow, in order to deliver the European space module Columbus to the International Space Station. The launch is scheduled to take place from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, at 2:45 ET. However, trou... |
6 February 2008
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One of the instruments operating in the infrared light domain will be tested just before Christmas, at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. The Mid-InfraRed Instrument equipping the James Webb Space telescope will have the role of observing the universe in the infrared spectrum, because the objects scie... |
10 December 2007
05:37 GMT |
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New images captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show how white dwarfs are kicked from the place of the original star, when they form. While observing the NGC 6397 globular star cluster, which consists of a dense accumulation of stars, Hubble has spotted a white dwarf traveling at relatively high speed. Most... |
4 December 2007
11:24 GMT |
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The James Webb Space Telescope is one of the space telescopes of the new generation that will be flown into Earth's orbit. Scheduled to launch no earlier than June 2013, the telescope has recently passed the preliminary design review made of the Optical Telescope Element, which will be the telescope's '... |
4 December 2007
08:40 GMT |
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Named in 2002, after NASA's second administrator, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a planned space infrared observatory, which will be created as an improvement of the aging Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope is planned to be launched in 2013, from an Ariane 5 rocket, and is the result of the collaboratio... |
29 October 2007
09:07 GMT |
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a planned space infrared observatory, intended to be a significant improvement on the aging Hubble Space Telescope, which is about to be decommissioned, after successfully serving its purpose since 1990. The agency is considering equipping the telescope with a grapple... |
1 June 2007
16:11 GMT |
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The spiral galaxy M81 is tilted at an oblique angle to the line of sight and gives a spectacular view of its spiral structure. NASA Hubble Space Telescope sent back the sharpest image ever taken of this "Grand Design" galaxy.Messier 81 (also known as NGC 3031 or Bode's Galaxy) is a spiral galaxy about 12 millio... |
29 May 2007
08:48 GMT |
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A new proposition in the field of astronomical observations is getting mixed opinions. An American astronomer is proposing that we build a giant liquid-mirror telescope on the Moon, saying that it will be hundreds of times more accurate and sensitive than even the Hubble Space Telescope.Roger Angel, a member of the ... |
23 May 2007
16:36 GMT |
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Hubble Space Telescope has just discovered a gigantic, ghostly ring of dark matter at a distance of 5 billion light-years from Earth. So far, it's the most compelling evidence of the existence of the elusive dark matter.Scientists have theorized on the existence of dark matter for some time, and they think it&#... |
16 May 2007
14:26 GMT |
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The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a telescope in orbit around the Earth, named after astronomer Edwin Hubble. Its position outside the Earth's atmosphere provides significant advantages over ground based telescopes - images are not blurred by the atmosphere, there is no background light scattered from the atm... |
24 April 2007
10:05 GMT |
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Ophiucus is a large constellation 5,000 light years from Earth, located in the southern hemisphere near the center of the Milky Way, between Scorpio to the west and Sagittarius to the east. Of the 13 zodiacal constellations (which contain the Sun during the course of the year), Ophiuchus is the only one not counted ... |
20 April 2007
06:00 GMT |
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