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This May, the space shuttle Atlantis flew the fifth and final repair flight to the venerable Hubble Space Telescope. The changes weren't purely aesthetic. A number of instruments, including the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, or WFPC-2, were replaced with better ones. The observatory also received new spectr... |
20 November 2009
20:41 GMT |
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The volcanic dome of Mauna Kea, in Hawaii, has been recognized for many years as one of the most suited locations for building ground-based telescopes. Its unique vantage point allows telescopes built here to make out details of the Universe that can only be seen from only a handful of other places around the world. ... |
17 November 2009
18:41 GMT |
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Since the crew of space shuttle Atlantis repaired the famous Hubble Space Telescope, earlier this year, the quality of the scientific data coming in from the observatory has increased substantially. Its new instruments now function flawlessly, having undergone a few months of testing, calibration and preliminary obse... |
6 November 2009
02:23 GMT |
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The Hubble Space Telescope has recently imaged a very weird-looking galaxy, which appears to be a two-armed spiral one at first glance. However, upon closer inspection, astronomers discovered that the formation was, in fact, the result of a massive, high-speed collision, taking place approximately 250 million light-y... |
14 October 2009
02:59 GMT |
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The recently discovered 2 Pallas is an asteroid located between Mars and Jupiter, and previous investigations have determined that it is a bit too impressive in size to be a simple rock. Indeed, the first high-resolution images to come to astronomers seem to demonstrate that the celestial body is a protoplanet, as sp... |
13 October 2009
18:11 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking, new image, astronomers and astrophysicists will finally have the opportunity to study one of the rarest events in the observed Universe, namely the collision and merger of two black holes. While it may be that the current generation, and many others after it, will not live to see it, the data col... |
8 October 2009
03:44 GMT |
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Massive stars have the ability to generate many types of interesting stellar phenomena on account of their size. Because they have such a large mass, it comes natural for them to emit huge amounts of radiation from their surface, and also to have an intense activity in terms of solar flares. This is one of the main r... |
19 September 2009
03:30 GMT |
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Scientists with alloted observation hours on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have recently announced that they've photographed the most distant galaxies ever observed with a telescope. Shuttle Atlantis' mission to the orbit-based observatory translated into a new batch of cameras and scientific equipment, ... |
17 September 2009
21:41 GMT |
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Jupiter's peculiar auroras have been a subject of fascination for astronomers for a long time, mostly because they change their patterns and brightness very quickly, much more so than their counterparts on Earth, for example. A thorough study of the events in the planet's magnetic lines, which dictate the s... |
17 September 2009
05:25 GMT |
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During the 13-day STS-125 mission to the Hubble Space Telescope in May, astronauts aboard space shuttle Atlantis conducted a large number of repairs and improvements on the iconic observatory, bringing it once again up to the highest standards. Now, after some five months of tests and calibrations, astronomers are fi... |
10 September 2009
02:54 GMT |
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A certain point 580 million kilometers away is these days the rage in astronomical observations. A few days ago, an object impacted the planet Jupiter, as we reported. The event was first discovered by an Australian sky watcher, who telephoned NASA and told them about his observations. The impact, which left the plan... |
25 July 2009
04:33 GMT |
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A venture between two American universities and a group of Canadian ones will result in one of the largest and most powerful ground-based telescopes in the world by 2018. At a project diameter of 30 meters (98.5 feet), the mammoth telescope will be constructed atop Mauna Kea, in the US island of Hawaii. This location... |
22 July 2009
04:42 GMT |
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The recently refurbished Hubble Space Telescope gave engineers at NASA a startle, when it froze up just weeks after the STS-125 space shuttle Atlantis mission to repair it. During the downtime, which lasted for about 14 hours on Monday morning, the most famous observatory in the world locked its handlers from accessi... |
19 June 2009
02:42 GMT |
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In 2006, over the course of 120 days, scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope observed the most peculiar object they had ever seen. A mystery flash occurred in the observer's sight, and gradually began to increase in intensity. After reaching peak light, it gradually began to disappear, and was totally gone ... |
1 June 2009
05:42 GMT |
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Today, the American space agency may begin transporting its space shuttle Atlantis back to the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, after the spacecraft's successful Sunday landing at the Edwards Air Force Base, in Southern California. However, the move may not be done today, despite the schedule, mostly because of... |
30 May 2009
05:28 GMT |
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Engineers working with the Hubble Space Telescope have recently said that they are extremely pleased with the instrument's new performances, made possible through the most complex orbital mission in history, space shuttle Atlantis' STS-125. The 13-day excursion saw the complete overhaul of the famous observ... |
27 May 2009
16:01 GMT |
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The crew aboard the space shuttle Atlantis had only two landing windows today, one on the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, at 10:11 am EDT (1411 GMT), and the other at the Edwards Air Force Base, in Southern California, at 11:40 am EDT (1540 GMT). After bad weather made the KSC landing impossible, NASA mission contro... |
24 May 2009
14:14 GMT |
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Despite the fact that the space shuttle Atlantis had three landing windows and five landing opportunities yesterday, the weather surrounding the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, and the Edwards Air Force base, in Southern California, did not cooperate with the astronauts. At the spaceport, severe thunderstorms,... |
24 May 2009
03:45 GMT |
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After successfully completing the most complex space mission ever, of repairing the ailing Hubble Space Telescope in five back-to-back spacewalks, the seven-astronaut crew aboard the space shuttle Atlantis is currently working hard on getting the spacecraft ready for its Friday landing at the Kennedy Space Center, in... |
21 May 2009
10:18 GMT |
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After the resounding success of the STS-125 service mission to Hubble, scientists and engineers are currently working on bringing all the renewed or replaced instruments online, and also on calibrating them. This is a very important step in the observation procedure, as any tiny error that might occur could significa... |
21 May 2009
02:29 GMT |
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After a successful series of five back-to-back spacewalks, performed over five very intense days, the astronauts aboard Atlantis released the Hubble Space Telescope back into its orbit, and moved their own shuttle in a lower orbit, preparing for the atmospheric reentry process. This is scheduled to take place on Frid... |
20 May 2009
01:45 GMT |
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Later today, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis will bid farewell to the renewed Hubble Space Telescope, after they have managed to successfully install $220 million worth of new instruments aboard the observatory, and also to repair existing damage. In a series of unbelievably long and hard spacewalks, str... |
19 May 2009
10:00 GMT |
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Yesterday's fifth and final servicing spacewalk to repair the aging Hubble Space Telescope was successfully completed by Atlantis Astronauts John Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustel, in seven hours and two minutes. The final upgrades and finishing touches to the space observatory were also added, and the two even manag... |
19 May 2009
01:37 GMT |
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Astronauts John Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustel have just recently begun performing their fifth and final maintenance spacewalk on the Hubble Space Telescope, aiming to install new batteries and another insulating layer on the aging observatory. The batteries have never been changed since the instrument was first delive... |
18 May 2009
09:40 GMT |
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Astronauts Michael Massimino and Michael Good conducted the fourth out of five spacewalks of the STS-125 mission to the Hubble Space Telescope on Sunday, and successfully managed to repair the observatory's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) instrument. Installed in 1997, it failed in 2004, and was neve... |
18 May 2009
02:14 GMT |
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Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis have just finished their second spacewalk yesterday, and managed to install six new sets of gyroscopes onto the 19-year-old space telescope. However, the very last box proved to have different dimensions than its holder, and so it could not be installed. But NASA had antic... |
16 May 2009
02:37 GMT |
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Backgrounded by a pale blue Earth, Atlantis astronauts can be seen live in this NASA TV webcast of the American space agency while working on replacing the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) with the WFPC 3 instrument, which will boost the telescope's vision considerably. The replacement procedure is only the... |
14 May 2009
11:18 GMT |
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The 19-year-old Hubble Space Telescope, the most well-known and productive observatory in the world, is now affixed to the space shuttle Atlantis' cargo bay. The crew managed to successfully pull in the satellite yesterday, at around 1:14 pm EDT (1714 GMT), using their spacecraft's robotic arm. The maneuver... |
14 May 2009
01:58 GMT |
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With space shuttle Atlantis en route to repair and upgrade it, the Hubble Space Telescope must now say goodbye to its longest-running optical camera, the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), which will be decommissioned over the next few days. In honor of the device, which has shown us the Universe for what it real... |
13 May 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Crew members aboard the newly launched space shuttle Atlantis have begun to conduct their first inspection of the craft's heat shield a few hours ago, an event that has become standard procedure since the Colombia accident, back in 2003. The investigation has even more meaning for Atlantis than it had for Discov... |
12 May 2009
09:38 GMT |
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It's official! The space shuttle Atlantis is now in Earth's orbit and is currently tracking down the Hubble Space Telescope. The blast-off went on with just two minor glitches, but they had no impact on the spacecraft's main systems, so engineers at NASA did not abort the mission again. The lift-off to... |
12 May 2009
02:13 GMT |
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If today's Atlantis launch goes according to plan, and the astronauts aboard the shuttle manage to complete all of their assigned objectives, the Hubble Space Telescope will once again become the most efficient observatory currently in our possession. The five spacewalks that were scheduled for the STS-125 missi... |
11 May 2009
02:31 GMT |
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Every single engineer and every single piece of equipment is ready for space shuttle Atlantis' launch today, NASA officials have announced. The lift-off will take place at 2.01 pm EDT (1801 GMT) from launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. Agency workers have also rolled back the protective shrou... |
11 May 2009
01:58 GMT |
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The American space agency gave today its final consent for tomorrow's launch of the space shuttle Atlantis on the fifth and last mission to service the venerable Hubble Space Telescope. So, the spacecraft will blast off on Monday, May 11, at 2:01 pm EDT, from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape C... |
10 May 2009
05:00 GMT |
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Rather than waiting until 2014-2016 to benefit from the advancements that modern technologies would bring in the field of orbital telescope-based space exploration, scientists and engineers working on the planned James Webb Space Telescope have decided to outfit Hubble with one intricate piece of future hardware. Tha... |
9 May 2009
04:33 GMT |
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NASA has scheduled the fifth and final Hubble Space Telescope repair mission for May 11th, and, at that time, the Atlantis space shuttle will carry its seven-astronaut crew to the 17-year-old observatory, for the final repairs. During the mission, several of Hubble's instruments will be replaced or updated, and,... |
8 May 2009
09:32 GMT |
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The NASA American space agency, together with the Warner Bros. Pictures movie company, and the IMAX Corporation announced yesterday that they would again collaborate during the STS-125 Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, when a number of IMAX 3D cameras would be taken to space, to document everything. In what w... |
5 May 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency have deemed it safe for the Atlantis space shuttle to lift off one day earlier than the previously planned May 12th launch date. The move was prompted by concerns that the fifth and final Hubble servicing mission could adversely affect the schedule that NASA had devised for the ... |
4 May 2009
02:40 GMT |
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Over the course of its years in service, the Hubble has brought forward a new era of astronomic knowledge. Just recently, with the release of the preliminary results of the GOODS NICMOS survey, the largest non-US-led study performed with the famous observatory, experts have learned that the massive galaxies that firs... |
28 April 2009
06:00 GMT |
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NASA officials announced on Thursday that they planned to move the STS-125 mission launch date a day earlier, in order to be able to avoid conflicts that may occur with other spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. If this new plan is approved next week, then Atlantis could lift off on May 11th, at 2:01 p... |
24 April 2009
02:25 GMT |
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In a recent Hubble image, astronomers have observed a very peculiar type of white dwarfs, in a globular cluster containing some of the Universe's oldest star remnants. The 24 celestial bodies, of which 18 have never before been seen, are made up almost entirely of helium, instead of the carbon and oxygen these f... |
23 April 2009
21:01 GMT |
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The gravitational forces that occur between two colliding galaxies are always of impressive magnitude, but experts at NASA and the team managing the Hubble Space Telescope have never seen anything quite as astounding as the Arp 194 galactic formation. It's made of three galaxies, two of which can be seen at the ... |
22 April 2009
02:23 GMT |
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The American space agency announced on Thursday that the risk of the Atlantis space shuttle to collide with a piece of space debris was well within its guidelines, and that the STS-125 mission to the Hubble Space telescope would, hopefully, go according to plan. In keeping with official NASA announcements, there is n... |
21 April 2009
05:17 GMT |
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In a recent collaboration between the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, NASA was able to observe the largest galactic collision ever recorded, taking place some 5.4 billion light-years away from Earth. Four galaxies are involved in the pile-up, and studying them... |
17 April 2009
05:44 GMT |
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The Messier 87 galaxy, known among astronomers as M87, Virgo A, or NGC 4486, is an elliptical galaxy of massive proportions, located in the Virgo Cluster, some 55 million light-years away from Earth. For more than seven years, the Hubble Space Telescope has been following the evolution of the supermassive black hole ... |
15 April 2009
02:20 GMT |
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The American space agency announced yesterday that the space shuttle Endeavor would be moved to its Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39B on Friday, April 17th. The 4.2-mile-long track will take approximately 7 hours to complete aboard the crawler-transport, the second largest tracked vehicle in the world. According to... |
14 April 2009
16:01 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study released by experts at the Indiana University, some massive galaxies may have formed relatively recently, just three to four billion years ago. Astronomical “dogma” holds that the most massive and luminescent galaxies in the Universe, such as our own Milky Way, were for... |
11 April 2009
05:54 GMT |
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On May 12th, NASA plans to launch mission STS-125, during which the Atlantis space shuttle will fly the fifth and final repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Because the orbit of the observatory is very different from that of the International Space Station (ISS), if something is to go wrong, the seven-me... |
11 April 2009
05:24 GMT |
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The Constellation of Indus has recently revealed another of its galaxies to the Hubble Space Telescope. Dubbed the most important observatory in the history of astronomy, Hubble has managed to identify the NGC 7049 galactic formation in the Southern constellation, and to reveal that it has a very peculiar shape, some... |
8 April 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Back by popular demand, the Arp 274 (NGC 5679) galactic merger was again photographed by Hubble's long-distance camera. Located over 400 million light-years away, the area contains three galaxies that are currently colliding with each other, drawing inevitably to their doom by a common center of gravity. When th... |
4 April 2009
04:53 GMT |
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