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The Hubble Space Telescope s …
5/14/09
Description 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...
Date 5/14/09
The Final Mission to Hubble
The STS-125 crew aboard spac …
5/22/09
Description 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...
Date 5/22/09
Working at the Hubble Contro …
Title Working at the Hubble Control Center, Space Telescope Science Institute
Description At Hubble?s control center at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., in 2005, Shift Supervisor Larry Stake uses a series of consoles to monitor Hubble operations. All the commands transmitted to Hubble, including the instructions on recording scientific data and orders on which stars to observe, come from these consoles. The shift supervisor is responsible for overall operations and the health and safety of Hubble. Hubble is monitored constantly by four teams, each made up of a quartet of flight controllers. The flight controllers deal with operations ranging from pointing the telescope to receiving data.
Almost There
The payload canister (right) …
4/21/09
Description The payload canister (right) with the Hubble Space Telescope equipment arrives at the base of Launch Pad 39A. On the pad, the Hubble equipment will be transferred to space shuttle Atlantis' payload bay. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett April 18, 2009
Date 4/21/09
Astronauts Training to Repai …
Title Astronauts Training to Repair Hubble
Description Astronauts Steven Smith and John Grunsfeld train in a Goddard Space Flight Center clean room on a backup of an electrical section of Hubble in 1999. The electrical section holds transmitters, batteries, recorders and electronics that operate various parts of Hubble. The astronauts wear ?bunny suits,? special coveralls, hoods, gloves, boots and masks that protect the sensitive equipment from particles that could interfere with its performance.
Making a Mend: Repairing Hub …
Title Making a Mend: Repairing Hubble's Insulation
Description Astronauts headed for Hubble during its second servicing mission in 1997 expected to repair some of the telescope?s outside insulation, which deteriorates in the harsh environment of space. But when they arrived, they discovered more damage than they had expected. Working inside the shuttle, they made patches out of materials in their repair kit. Astronaut Scott Horowitz holds up one of the patches.
15 Years of Science from the …
Title 15 Years of Science from the Hubble Space Telescope
Description The birth and death pangs of stars, the deepest pictures taken of space, and immense natural "lenses" created by gravity are among the topics illustrated by Hubble images in this short broadcast, known as a HubbleMinute.
Hubble 2003
Title Hubble 2003
Description Planets outside our own solar system, black holes and the beginning of time are among the topics Hubble tackled in 2002. This first installment of the Hubble yearbook series highlights the year?s discoveries.
Hubble 2005
Title Hubble 2005
Description From the discovery of Sedna, a distant object rotating with puzzling slowness, to theories about the death of the universe based on observation of supernova remnants, 2004 was a big year for Hubble science. This third installment in the Hubble yearbook series covers these topics and more.
STS-125 HST Prepack and Fit …
STS-125 HST Prepack and Fit …
2009
Description STS-125 HST Prepack and Fit Check
Date 2009
Hands-On Book of Hubble Imag …
Title Hands-On Book of Hubble Images Allows the Visually Impaired to "Touch the Universe
Hands-On Book of Hubble Imag …
Title Hands-On Book of Hubble Images Allows the Visually Impaired to "Touch the Universe
Hands-On Book of Hubble Imag …
Title Hands-On Book of Hubble Images Allows the Visually Impaired to "Touch the Universe
Shuttle Atlantis' Hubble Mis …
The seven-member crew of the …
2008
Description The seven-member crew of the next shuttle mission practice driving the M-113 armored personnel carrier during a full launch dress rehearsal, known as the terminal countdown demonstration test, or TCDT, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., Sept. 22. The crew members of space shuttle Atlantis' STS-125 mission each practice driving the M-113 in turn as part of their training on emergency egress procedures. An M-113 will be available to transport the crew to safety in the event of a contingency on the pad before their launch. TCDT provides astronauts and ground crews with an opportunity to participate in various simulated countdown activities including equipment familiarization and emergency training.
Date 2008
NASA's Shuttle Endeavour Mov …
Space shuttle Endeavour was …
4/10/09
Description Space shuttle Endeavour was moved April 10, from Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 2 to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., for its upcoming STS-127 mission to the International Space Station. Endeavour also will stand by at Kennedy's Launch Pad 39B in the unlikely event that a rescue mission is necessary during space shuttle Atlantis' upcoming mission to upgrade NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The move from Endeavour's hangar is referred to referred to as a "rollover." Following rollover technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building attach the lifting sling to Endeavour for rotation and hoisting. The shuttle then is mated to its external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters.
Date 4/10/09
Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper …
NASA's Hubble Space Telescop …
01/13/10
Description NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the smallest object ever seen in visible light in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy debris that is encircling the outer rim of the solar system just beyond Neptune. This artist's concept of the needle-in-a-haystack object found by Hubble is only 3,200 feet across and a whopping 4.2 billion miles away. The smallest Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) seen previously in reflected light is roughly 30 miles across, or 50 times larger. Hubble observations of nearby stars show that a number of them have Kuiper Belt-like disks of icy debris encircling them. These disks are the remnants of planetary formation. Researchers surmise that over billions of years the debris should collide, grinding the KBO-type objects down to ever smaller pieces that were not part of the original Kuiper Belt population. The finding is a powerful illustration of scientists' ability to use archived Hubble data to produce important new discoveries. Image Credit: NASA
Date 01/13/10
Hubble Docked with the Shutt …
Title Hubble Docked with the Shuttle Endeavor
Description Astronaut F. Story Musgrave, anchored on the Space Shuttle Endeavor?s robotic arm, prepares to be elevated to the top of the Hubble Space Telescope during Hubble?s first servicing mission in 1993. Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman, inside the shuttle payload bay, assists Musgrave. Hubble?s first servicing mission replaced and repaired various instruments, but its most important task was installing technology that corrected the tiny flaw in Hubble?s main mirror that distorted the telescope?s view. Hubble was specially designed to be repaired and upgraded by astronauts while in orbit.
Hubble Captures Stars Going …
Title Hubble Captures Stars Going Out in Style
General Information What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. The colorful, intricate shapes in these NASA Hubble Space Telescope images reveal how the glowing gas ejected by dying Sun-like stars evolves dramatically over time. These gaseous clouds, called planetary nebulae, are created when stars in the last stages of life cast off their outer layers of material into space. The snapshots of He 2-47, NGC 5315, IC 4593, and NGC 5307 were taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in February 2007.
Hubble Captures Stars Going …
Title Hubble Captures Stars Going Out in Style
General Information What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. The colorful, intricate shapes in these NASA Hubble Space Telescope images reveal how the glowing gas ejected by dying Sun-like stars evolves dramatically over time. These gaseous clouds, called planetary nebulae, are created when stars in the last stages of life cast off their outer layers of material into space. The snapshots of He 2-47, NGC 5315, IC 4593, and NGC 5307 were taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in February 2007.
Hubble Captures Stars Going …
Title Hubble Captures Stars Going Out in Style
General Information What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. The colorful, intricate shapes in these NASA Hubble Space Telescope images reveal how the glowing gas ejected by dying Sun-like stars evolves dramatically over time. These gaseous clouds, called planetary nebulae, are created when stars in the last stages of life cast off their outer layers of material into space. The snapshots of He 2-47, NGC 5315, IC 4593, and NGC 5307 were taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in February 2007.
Hubble Captures Stars Going …
Title Hubble Captures Stars Going Out in Style
General Information What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. The colorful, intricate shapes in these NASA Hubble Space Telescope images reveal how the glowing gas ejected by dying Sun-like stars evolves dramatically over time. These gaseous clouds, called planetary nebulae, are created when stars in the last stages of life cast off their outer layers of material into space. The snapshots of He 2-47, NGC 5315, IC 4593, and NGC 5307 were taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in February 2007.
Hands-On Book of Hubble Imag …
Title Hands-On Book of Hubble Images Allows the Visually Impaired to "Touch the Universe
NASA's Shuttle Endeavour Pre …
Technicians in the Vehicle A …
4/10/09
Description Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida attached the lifting sling to space shuttle Endeavour for rotation and hoisting on April 10. The shuttle then was attached to its external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters for its upcoming mission to the International Space Station. Endeavour also will stand by at Kennedy's launch Pad 39B in the unlikely event that a rescue mission is necessary during space shuttle Atlantis' upcoming mission to upgrade NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Date 4/10/09
Hubble Astronomers Unveil "C …
Title Hubble Astronomers Unveil "Crab Nebula - The Movie
Hands-On Book of Hubble Imag …
Title Hands-On Book of Hubble Images Allows the Visually Impaired to "Touch the Universe
Hands-On Book of Hubble Imag …
Title Hands-On Book of Hubble Images Allows the Visually Impaired to "Touch the Universe
Hands-On Book of Hubble Imag …
Title Hands-On Book of Hubble Images Allows the Visually Impaired to "Touch the Universe
Hands-On Book of Hubble Imag …
Title Hands-On Book of Hubble Images Allows the Visually Impaired to "Touch the Universe
Hands-On Book of Hubble Imag …
Title Hands-On Book of Hubble Images Allows the Visually Impaired to "Touch the Universe
Hands-On Book of Hubble Imag …
Title Hands-On Book of Hubble Images Allows the Visually Impaired to "Touch the Universe
Hubble Captures the Heart of …
Title Hubble Captures the Heart of the Orion Nebula
General Information What is an Early Release Observation? A photograph of a celestial object that demonstrates the performance of a new Hubble camera. The Hubble telescope's infrared vision is providing a dramatic new look at the beautiful Orion Nebula, which contains the nearest nursery for massive stars. For comparison, Hubble's visible-light view of the nebula is on the left. The heart of the giant Orion molecular cloud, OMC-1, is included in the relatively dim and featureless area inside the blue outline near the top of the image. Light from a few foreground stars provides only a hint of the many other stars embedded in this dense cloud. Hubble's infrared camera reveals a chaotic, active star birth region [as seen in the right-hand picture]. Here, stars and glowing interstellar dust, heated by and scattering the intense starlight, appear yellow-orange.
Pretty as a Picture
The Hubble community bids fa …
5/11/09
Description The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. In tribute to Hubble's longest-running optical camera, a planetary nebula has been imaged as WFPC2's final "pretty picture." This planetary nebula is known as Kohoutek 4-55 (or K 4-55). It is one of a series of planetary nebulae that were named after their discoverer, Czech astronomer Lubos Kohoutek. A planetary nebula contains the outer layers of a red giant star that were expelled into interstellar space when the star was in the late stages of its life. Ultraviolet radiation emitted from the remaining hot core of the star ionizes the ejected gas shells, causing them to glow. In the case of K 4-55, a bright inner ring is surrounded by a bipolar structure. The entire system is then surrounded by a faint red halo, seen in the emission by nitrogen gas. This multi-shell structure is fairly uncommon in planetary nebulae. This Hubble image was taken by WFPC2 on May 4, 2009. The colors represent the makeup of the various emission clouds in the nebula: red represents nitrogen, green represents hydrogen, and blue represents oxygen. K 4-55 is nearly 4,600 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. The WFPC2 instrument, which was installed in 1993 to replace the original Wide Field/Planetary Camera, will be removed to make room for Wide Field Camera 3 during the STS-125 mission. During the camera's amazing, nearly 16-year run, WFPC2 provided outstanding science and spectacular images of the cosmos. Some of its best-remembered images are of the Eagle Nebula pillars, Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9's impacts on Jupiter's atmosphere, and the 1995 Hubble Deep Field -- the longest and deepest Hubble optical image of its time. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) and R. Sahai and J. Trauger (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Date 5/11/09
Hands-On Book of Hubble Imag …
Title Hands-On Book of Hubble Images Allows the Visually Impaired to "Touch the Universe
Hands-On Book of Hubble Imag …
Title Hands-On Book of Hubble Images Allows the Visually Impaired to "Touch the Universe
Hubble Payload Prepared for …
In Kennedy's Payload Hazardo …
3/24/09
Description In Kennedy's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility a crane lowers the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, or COS, toward the Orbital Replacement Unit Carrier for the STS-125 Hubble Servicing mission. Installing the COS will effectively restore spectroscopy to Hubble's scientific arsenal, and at the same time provide the telescope with unique capabilities. COS is designed to study the large-scale structure of the universe and how galaxies, stars and planets formed and evolved. It will help determine how elements needed for life such as carbon and iron first formed and how their abundances have increased over the lifetime of the universe. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett March 18, 2009
Date 3/24/09
Hubble Finds Hidden Exoplane …
In 19 years of observations, …
4/2/09
Description In 19 years of observations, the Hubble Space Telescope has amassed a huge archive of data--an archive that may contain the telltale glow of undiscovered...
Date 4/2/09
Pretty as a Picture
The Hubble community bids fa …
5/11/09
Description The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. In tribute...
Date 5/11/09
New Arrival
External Tank 130 arrives in …
12/5/08
Description External Tank 130 arrives in the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ET 130, which will be used on the Hubble servicing mission, STS-125, will be moved into a high bay for checkout. Image credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller Dec. 4, 2008
Date 12/5/08
Window to the Stars
This parent and child decora …
7/11/08
Description This parent and child decorated a telescope and then used it to view real constellation images captured from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This was one of several Imagination Zone activities aimed at nurturing scientific and artistic interest and talent. </br/></br/> Image credit: NASA/Marvin Smith (WYLE) C-2008-1249
Date 7/11/08
Final Crew Inspection
STS-125 crew members take a …
4/29/09
Description STS-125 crew members take a final close look at the hardware for the Hubble servicing mission in space shuttle Atlantis' payload bay. As a result of the upgrades and repairs, Hubble's capabilities will be expanded and its operational lifespan extended through at least 2014. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett April 28, 2009
Date 4/29/09
Back to the OPF
Space shuttle Atlantis is to …
11/11/08
Description Space shuttle Atlantis is towed into the Orbiter Processing Facility, or OPF, after being removed from the external tank and solid rocket booster stack. Atlantis will remain in the OPF until a new launch date is set for the STS-125 mission to service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Date 11/11/08
Back to the OPF
Space shuttle Atlantis is to …
11/11/08
Description Space shuttle Atlantis is towed into the Orbiter Processing Facility, or OPF, after being removed from the external tank and solid rocket booster stack. Atlantis will remain in the OPF until a new launch date is set for the STS-125 mission to service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Date 11/11/08
Back to the OPF
Space shuttle Atlantis is to …
11/17/08
Description Space shuttle Atlantis is towed into the Orbiter Processing Facility, or OPF, after being removed from the external tank and solid rocket booster stack. Atlantis will remain in the OPF until a new launch date is set for the STS-125 mission to service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis November 11, 2008
Date 11/17/08
Up, Up, and Away!
From Launch Pad 39A at NASA' …
5/13/09
Description From Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis roars into the sky on a column of fire on the STS-125 mission to service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Liftoff was on time at 2:01 p.m. EDT. Photo courtesy of Scott Andrews May 11, 2009
Date 5/13/09
Endeavour Stand Ready
The launch of space shuttle …
5/13/09
Description The launch of space shuttle Atlantis from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is viewed from behind Launch Pad 39B. On pad 39B is space shuttle Endeavour, which can launch, if needed, for rescue of Atlantis' crew during its STS-125 mission to service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Photo courtesy of Scott Andrews May 11, 2009
Date 5/13/09
Payload Inspection
STS-125 crew members conduct …
4/2/09
Description STS-125 crew members conduct equipment and procedure familiarization, including sharp edge inspection, in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for their mission to service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Date 4/2/09
Payload Inspection
STS-125 crew members conduct …
4/2/09
Description STS-125 crew members conduct equipment and procedure familiarization, including sharp edge inspection, in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for their mission to service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Date 4/2/09
Building the Space Telescope …
Title Building the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph
Description Engineers in a clean room at Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colo., work on one of Hubble?s instruments, the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), in 1996. The instrument, installed in Hubble in 1997, breaks light into colors, giving scientists an important analytical tool for studying the cosmos. STIS has been used to study such objects as black holes, new stars, and massive planets forming outside our solar system.
Hubble Identifies Primeval G …
Title Hubble Identifies Primeval Galaxies, Uncovers New Clues to the Universe's Evolution
Hubble Sees Material Ejected …
Title Hubble Sees Material Ejected from Comet Hale-Bopp
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