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Natural Lenses in Space Stre
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Natural Lenses in Space Stretch Hubble's View of the Universe |
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Natural Lenses in Space Stre
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Natural Lenses in Space Stretch Hubble's View of the Universe |
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Hands-On Book of Hubble Imag
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Hands-On Book of Hubble Images Allows the Visually Impaired to "Touch the Universe |
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Hands-On Book of Hubble Imag
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Hands-On Book of Hubble Images Allows the Visually Impaired to "Touch the Universe |
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Hands-On Book of Hubble Imag
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Hands-On Book of Hubble Images Allows the Visually Impaired to "Touch the Universe |
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Hands-On Book of Hubble Imag
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Hands-On Book of Hubble Images Allows the Visually Impaired to "Touch the Universe |
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Hubble 2004
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Hubble 2004 |
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The second in the Hubble yearbook series discusses such discoveries as an evaporating planet, the oldest known planet in the galaxy, and a far-distant star cluster that formed in the early universe. |
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Two NASA Space Shuttles on T
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Following rollout of space s
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4/18/09
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Following rollout of space shuttle Endeavour from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B on April 17, two shuttles were on the launch pads at the same time at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Shuttle Atlantis already had been moved to Launch Pad 39A. Endeavour will stand by at pad B in the unlikely event that a rescue mission is necessary during Atlantis' upcoming mission to upgrade NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Atlantis is targeted to launch May 12. With the space shuttle fleet set for retirement in 2010, this is expected to be the final time two shuttles will be on launch pads at the same time. Video includes aerials of the shuttles on April 17, and sunrise shots and additional aerials on April 18. |
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4/18/09 |
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Two NASA Space Shuttles on T
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Following rollout of space s
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4/18/09
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Following rollout of space shuttle Endeavour from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B on April 17, two shuttles were on the launch pads at the same time at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Shuttle Atlantis already had been moved to Launch Pad 39A. Endeavour will stand by at pad B in the unlikely event that a rescue mission is necessary during Atlantis' upcoming mission to upgrade NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Atlantis is targeted to launch May 12. With the space shuttle fleet set for retirement in 2010, this is expected to be the final time two shuttles will be on launch pads at the same time. Video includes aerials of the shuttles on April 17, and sunrise shots and additional aerials on April 18. |
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4/18/09 |
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Hubble
The Hubble Space Telescope s
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5/14/09
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The Hubble Space Telescope stands tall in the cargo bay of the space shuttle Atlantis following its capture on Wednesday, May 13, 2009. The STS-125 mission... |
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5/14/09 |
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The Final Mission to Hubble
The STS-125 crew aboard spac
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5/22/09
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The STS-125 crew aboard space shuttle Atlantis captured this still image of the Hubble Space Telescope as the two spacecraft begin their relative separation... |
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5/22/09 |
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X" Marks the Spot: Hubble Se
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X" Marks the Spot: Hubble Sees the Glow of Star Formation in a Neighbor Galaxy |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Hubble Witnesses Comet Crash
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Sol (our sun)
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Hubble Witnesses Comet Crash |
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"" Quick Time Movie for PIA02122 Hubble Witnesses Comet Crash Figure 1: Hubble Witnesses Comet Crash These pictures of comet Tempel 1 were taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. They show the comet before and after it ran over NASA's Deep Impact probe. |
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Hubble Docked with Discovery
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Hubble Docked with Discovery |
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The Hubble Space Telescope rests in the Space Shuttle Discovery?s cargo bay during the third repair mission in December 1999. Hubble must attach to the shuttle for astronauts to perform repairs. Discovery is the shuttle that originally carried Hubble into orbit in 1990. The telescope stretches five stories tall, and the tubular part of its body is 14 feet (4.2 m) across. Its school bus-size bulk completely filled Discovery?s cargo bay during the trip from Earth to space. |
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Hubble Monitors Weather on N
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Hubble Monitors Weather on Neighboring Planets |
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Findings from Hubble Deep Fi
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Findings from Hubble Deep Field Hone in on Distant Galaxies |
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The Universe "Down Under" is
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The Universe "Down Under" is the Latest Target for Hubble's Latest Deep-View |
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Hubble Space Telescope Begin
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Hubble Space Telescope Begins "Two-Gyro" Science Operations |
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Hubble Space Telescope Begin
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Hubble Space Telescope Begins "Two-Gyro" Science Operations |
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Hubble Fellowship Program Se
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Hubble Fellowship Program Selects Talented Young Astronomers for Studying Hubble Space Telescope Discoveries |
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Astronomers Unveil Colorful
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Astronomers Unveil Colorful Hubble Photo Gallery |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. A vibrant celestial photo album of some of NASA Hubble Space Telescope's most stunning views of the universe is being unveiled today on the Internet. Called the Hubble Heritage Program, this technicolor gallery is being assembled by a team of astronomers at Hubble's science operations center, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md. The four images released today are (top row, left to right) spiral galaxy NGC 7742, Saturn, and (bottom row, left to right) the Sagittarius Star Cloud and the Bubble Nebula. Read more: * Release Text [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1998/28/text/ ] |
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Hubble Heritage Project's Fi
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Hubble Heritage Project's First Anniversary |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. To mark the first anniversary of the Hubble Heritage Project, we present four Hubble telescope images of nebulae surrounding stars in our own Milky Way Galaxy. Two of these visible-light pictures show interstellar gas and dust around young stars at the beginning of their lives, and two more show gas ejected from old stars that are nearing the end of theirs. Remarkably, in spite of the completely different evolutionary stages, the nebulae have more striking features in common, including evidence of diametrically opposed gas ejections from both the young and old stars. |
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A Week of Work
Astronaut John Grunsfeld per
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5/15/09
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Astronaut John Grunsfeld performs work on the Hubble Space Telescope as the first of five STS-125 spacewalks kicks off a week's worth of work on the orbiting... |
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5/15/09 |
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A Parting Look
The STS-125 crew took a fina
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5/20/09
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The STS-125 crew took a final look at the Hubble Space Telescope on May 19, 2009, prior to the telescopes's release following a full week's work. Atlantis'... |
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5/20/09 |
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Hubble Image of He2-90
This mysterious object that
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8/31/00
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8/31/00 |
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This mysterious object that seems to defy classification was found by astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The object has been classified as a planetary nebula, the glowing remains of a Sun-like star in its death throes, although the Hubble observations suggest it may not fit that classification, either. A quick glance at the Hubble picture at top shows that the object, He2-90, looks like a young, dust-enshrouded star with narrow jets of material resembling strings of beads streaming from each side. The other light streaks running diagonally from He2-90 are artificial effects of the telescope's optical system. Each jet possesses at least six bright clumps of gas speeding along at rates estimated to be at least 600,000 kilometers an hour (375,000 miles an hour). These gaseous clumps are ejected into space about every 100 years and may be caused by periodic instabilities in He2-90's accretion disk. Jets from very young stars behave in a similar way. Deep images taken from a terrestrial observatory show each jet extending at least 100,000 astronomical units (one astronomical unit equals the Earth-Sun distance, 150 million kilometers or 93 million miles). The Hubble astronomers, Dr. Raghvendra Sahai of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and Lars-Ake Nyman of the European Southern Observatory, Chile, and Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden, suspect that He2-9 is a pair of aging stars masquerading as a single youngster. One member of the duo is a bloated red giant star shedding matter from its outer layers. This matter is then captured by gravity in a rotating accretion disk around a compact partner, most likely a young white dwarf (the collapsed remnant of a Sun-like star). The stars are not visible in the Hubble images because they're obscured by a disk of dust. The jets' relatively modest speed implies that one member of the duo is a white dwarf. An accretion disk needs gravity to form. For gravity to create He2-90's disk, the two stars must reside at a cozy distance from each other: within about 10 astronomical units. Astronomers are uncertain about the details, but they believe that magnetic fields associated with accretion disks produce and constrict the pencil-thin jets seen in the Hubble image. The close-up Hubble photo at bottom shows a dark, flaring, disk-like structure (off-center) bisecting the bright light from the object. The disk is seen edge-on. Although this disk is too large to be an accretion disk, it may provide indirect proof of the disk's existence. Most theories for producing jets require the presence of an accretion disk. The round, white objects at the lower left and upper right corners are two bright clumps of gas in the jets, which are close to the companion star. The astronomers traced the jets to within 1,000 astronomical units of the central obscured star. The star ejected this material about 30 years ago. This oddball star was discovered during an imaging survey of planetary nebulae. The images were taken Sept. 28, 1999 with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The images and results appear in the Aug. 1 issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters. JPL designed and built the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. The Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md, manages space operations for the Hubble Space Telescope for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. The Institute is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., for NASA, under contract with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. ##### |
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Hubble Identifies Primeval G
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Hubble Identifies Primeval Galaxies, Uncovers New Clues to the Universe's Evolution |
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Hubble Identifies Primeval G
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Hubble Identifies Primeval Galaxies, Uncovers New Clues to the Universe's Evolution |
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Hubble Identifies Primeval G
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Hubble Identifies Primeval Galaxies, Uncovers New Clues to the Universe's Evolution |
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Hubble Identifies Primeval G
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Hubble Identifies Primeval Galaxies, Uncovers New Clues to the Universe's Evolution |
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Hubble Identifies Primeval G
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Hubble Identifies Primeval Galaxies, Uncovers New Clues to the Universe's Evolution |
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Hubble Identifies Primeval G
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Hubble Identifies Primeval Galaxies, Uncovers New Clues to the Universe's Evolution |
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Hubble Identifies Primeval G
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Hubble Identifies Primeval Galaxies, Uncovers New Clues to the Universe's Evolution |
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Hubble Identifies Primeval G
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Hubble Identifies Primeval Galaxies, Uncovers New Clues to the Universe's Evolution |
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Hubble Identifies Primeval G
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Hubble Identifies Primeval Galaxies, Uncovers New Clues to the Universe's Evolution |
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Hubble Identifies Primeval G
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Hubble Identifies Primeval Galaxies, Uncovers New Clues to the Universe's Evolution |
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Hubble Identifies Primeval G
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Hubble Identifies Primeval Galaxies, Uncovers New Clues to the Universe's Evolution |
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Hubble Image of Comet Shoema
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Hubble Image of Comet Shoemaker-Levy First Fragment Impact With Jupiter |
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Hubble Observes the Fire and
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Hubble Observes the Fire and Fury of a Stellar Birth |
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Hubble Reveals Surface of Pl
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Hubble Reveals Surface of Pluto for First Time |
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Hubble Finds Thousands of Ga
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Hubble Finds Thousands of Gaseous Fragments Surrounding a Dying Star |
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Hubble Observes the Fire and
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Hubble Observes the Fire and Fury of a Stellar Birth |
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Hubble Views Saturn Ring-Pla
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Hubble Views Saturn Ring-Plane Crossing |
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Hubble Observes the Fire and
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Hubble Observes the Fire and Fury of a Stellar Birth |
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Hubble Tracks the Fading Opt
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Hubble Tracks the Fading Optical Counterpart of a Gamma-Ray Burst |
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Hubble Photo Gallery of Jupi
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Hubble Photo Gallery of Jupiter's Galilean Satellites |
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Hubble Photo Gallery of Jupi
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Hubble Photo Gallery of Jupiter's Galilean Satellites |
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Hubble Finds a Bare Black Ho
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Hubble Finds a Bare Black Hole Pouring Out Light |
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Hubble Provides the First Im
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Hubble Provides the First Images of Saturn's Aurorae |
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Hubble Sees Thin Disk Around
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Hubble Sees Thin Disk Around the Star Beta Pictoris |
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Hubble Provides the First Im
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Hubble Provides the First Images of Saturn's Aurorae |
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