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  • July 2008

    • Upgrade Will Boost Hubble Vision

      Washington Post  |  Jul 7, 08 2:10 AM CDT

      Upgrade Will Boost Hubble Vision

      (Newser) - Spectacular images from the Hubble telescope are about to get even more awe-inspiring, thanks to a $900-million upgrade during an upcoming space shuttle mission—the fifth and last mission to the orbiting observatory. Two new high-tech instruments and a series of repairs will make Hubble able to probe even deeper into space and see farther back into time for its last 5 or 6 years in operation, reports the Washington Post . More »

  • March 2008
  • January 2008

    • NASA Plans Daring Hubble Fix

      New Scientist  |  Jan 9, 08 12:42 PM CST

      NASA Plans Daring Hubble Fix

      (Newser) - Astronauts will save—and drastically upgrade—the Hubble Space Telescope in an unprecedented mission this year, NewScientist Space reports. The mission will make the Hubble 90 times more powerful than it originally was, but will require spacewalkers to complete a delicate electronics repair job in zero gravity while wearing bulky spacesuits. Without the tune-up, Hubble would go offline by 2011. More »

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      NASA  • space  • astronauts  • astronomy  • spacewalk  • Hubble

  • December 2007

    • NASA Finds 'Death Star' Galaxy

      Space.com  |  Dec 18, 07 4:02 AM CST

      NASA Finds 'Death Star' Galaxy

      (Newser) - NASA astronomers have discovered a "death star galaxy" with a super massive black hole that is blasting a neighboring galaxy with deadly radiation. It's the first time scientists have witnessed such a phenomenon. The hungry black hole has been zapping a galaxy 20,000 light years away for about a million years, reports Space.com.  More »

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      NASA  • Hubble  • Very Large Array

  • September 2007

    • New 'Lucky' System Takes Clearest-Ever Space Pics

      BBC  |  Sep 4, 07 3:42 AM CDT

      New 'Lucky' System Takes Clearest-Ever Space Pics

      (Newser) - A ground-based optics system has been developed that can take pictures of space twice as sharp as those from the Hubble Telescope. The system uses advanced light detection chips and calculates when the atmosphere is least distorting, the BBC reports. The system gathers together the clear pictures and eliminates distortions to produce what researchers believe are some of the clearest images ever obtained. More »

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      space  • astronomy  • Hubble  • Cambridge

  • August 2007

    • Google Takes Map Program to the Stars

      BBC  |  Aug 22, 07 12:28 PM CDT

      Google Takes Map Program to the Stars

      (Newser) - Launching off of the success of Google Earth, Google launched a new program today allowing armchair astronomers to chuck the telescope and gaze at the heavens from their monitors. Google Sky will harness Hubble photos along with a database of information, and feature more than one million stars and 200 million galaxies, the BBC reports. More »

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      Google  • NASA  • space  • Google Earth  • stars  • Hubble  • Google Sky

    • 25 Biggest Scientific Discoveries

      USA Today  |  Aug 21, 07 1:10 PM CDT

      25 Biggest Scientific Discoveries

      (Newser) - The invention of the wheel was pretty good. Fire, even better. But what has science done for us lately? USA Today lists the top 25 scientific discoveries; here are the top 10: Accelerating universe Human genome Climate accord More »

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      Internet  • list  • science  • DNA  • genes  • planet  • genome  • Hubble  • ozone  • Pluto  • RNA

  • June 2007

    • Most Massive Star Ever Weighs In

      Space.com  |  Jun 8, 07 6:43 AM CDT

      Most Massive Star Ever Weighs In

      (Newser) - The most massive star yet discovered has been "weighed," astronomers say, and it tips the scales at a whopping 114 times the mass of the sun. The enormous star forms the bigger half of a rapidly orbiting binary system and it far outstrips both its companion star and the previous record holder—which weigh in at 84 and 83 solar masses, respectively. More »

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      NASA  • space  • astronomy  • stars  • sun  • Hubble

  • May 2007

    • Hubble Finds Dark Matter

      Space.com  |  May 15, 07 8:00 AM CDT

      Hubble Finds Dark Matter

      (Newser) - Astronomers have discovered a ring of dark matter in a galaxy cluster about 5 billion light years away. The Hubble Telescope turned up an anomaly in the way stars in the area appear, which researchers think is a distortion caused by the intense gravity of the galactic "glue" holding the cluster together. More »

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      space  • astronomy  • stars  • Hubble  • dark matter  • gravity

    • NASA Reveals Superpowered Telescope

      BBC  |  May 11, 07 4:38 PM CDT

      NASA Reveals Superpowered Telescope

      (Newser) - NASA has uncovered a prototype for a new telescope that will outmagnify the dominant Hubble. The James Webb Space Telescope will cost $4.5 billion and float nearly a million miles from Earth when it launches in six years; its supercharged hexagonal mirror will transmit images of the farthest and oldest corners of the universe. More »

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      NASA  • space  • space exploration  • Hubble  • James Webb  • telescope

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