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NEWS ABOUT: Hubble

Hubble stories: 13 news summaries
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 New Hubble Images Dazzle 

Refurbished telescope can see further, with more color

Sep 9, 09 1:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - NASA released the first shots from the recently upgraded Hubble Space Telescope today, and the results are spectacular. Thanks to the new imagers installed in May, Hubble can now see farther, with greater clarity and a wider color spectrum, reports NPR. Officially, NASA calls it a new beginning for the... More »

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NASA • Hubble • deep space • galaxy • outer space • Hubble Space Telescope

 Hubble's Back in Action 


Oct 30, 08 7:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Hubble has perfect vision again. NASA today released the first photos taken by the space telescope since an instrumental glitch put it out of commission last month, Space.com reports. Engineers fixed the problem this week, then got photos of a pair of galaxies about 400 million light-years from... More »

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NASA • Hubble • deep space • Hubble Space Telescope

 Hubble Glitch Delays 
 NASA Repair Mission 

Telescope malfunction will require retraining of crew, delay launch

Sep 29, 08 5:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - A repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope has been delayed after the apparatus stopped transmitting data Friday, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Shuttle crews will be retrained to deal with the new problem, and the launch rescheduled so NASA can have a second shuttle ready in case a rescue mission... More »

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NASA • Hubble • space shuttle • delay • repair • Atlantis Space Shuttle • space telescope

 Upgrade Will Boost
 Hubble Vision 

Upgrade will create spectacular images

Jul 7, 08 2:10 AM CDT
(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... More »

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NASA • Columbia University • European Space Agency • Hubble • space shuttle • Johns Hopkins University • Goddard Space Flight Center • space telescope • Cosmic Origins Spectrograph • Wide Field Camera 3

 Methane Found on Far-off Planet

Compound, crucial ingredient in early-life chemistry, detected 63 light years away

Mar 19, 08 4:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - Methane, one of the simplest compounds known to play a role in the chemical genesis of life, was discovered for the first time to exist on a planet outside Earth’s solar system, the BBC reports. The planet, designated HD 189733b, is 63 light years away and also contains water,... More »

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Hubble • space • methane • extraterrestrial life • Spitzer orbiting telescope • carbon • Jupiter • extrasolar planets • gas giant • prebiotic chemicals • organic compounds

NASA Plans Daring Hubble Fix

Unprecedented spacewalk will make for spiffier 'scope

Jan 9, 08 12:42 PM CST
(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... More »

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NASA • astronomy • Hubble • space • astronauts • spacewalk • John Grunsfeld • neutral buoyancy laboratory

NASA Finds 'Death Star' Galaxy

Phenomenon blasts neighboring  galaxy

Dec 18, 07 4:02 AM CST
(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... More »

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NASA • Hubble • Very Large Array • supermassive black hole • Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics • Astrophysical Journal • 3C321 • Chandra X ray observatory • MERLIN

New 'Lucky' System Takes Clearest-Ever Space Pics

Images are twice as sharp as Hubble's

Sep 4, 07 3:42 AM CDT
(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... More »

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astronomy • Hubble • space • Cambridge • Palomar • Caltech • Lucky

Google Takes Map Program
to the Stars

Google Sky will boot
up computer-chair
space exploration

Aug 22, 07 12:28 PM CDT
(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... More »

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NASA • Google • Google Earth • Hubble • space • star • Google Sky • Space Agreement Act • Imaginova

25 Biggest Scientific Discoveries

From the unfathomably small to the mind-blowingly huge, the most significant breakthroughs

Aug 21, 07 1:10 PM CDT
(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:
  1. Accelerating universe
  2. Human genome
  3. Climate accord
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Internet • science • planet • Hubble • DNA • list • RNA • genes • genome • ozone • Pluto • quarks

Most Massive Star Ever Weighs In

Astronomers say hefty gas giant is 100 times heavier than the sun

Jun 8, 07 6:43 AM CDT
(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... More »

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NASA • astronomy • Hubble • space • star • sun

Hubble Finds Dark Matter

May 15, 07 8:00 AM CDT
(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... More »

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astronomy • Hubble • space • star • dark matter • gravity

NASA Reveals Superpowered Telescope

Giant camera will replace Hubble,
see across universe

May 11, 07 4:38 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

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