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Hubble captures bubble-blowing galaxy

New NASA/ESA Hubble space telescope images of Holmberg II, a dwarf irregular galaxy, have revealed its blurry boundaries have been pocked by giant bubbles of glowing gas, where star-birth blew away dust and gas, and supernova shocks cleared out cavities.

In the Media by Elizabeth Cunningham Perkins - 2 comments

Galaxy UDFy-38135539: Universe's most senior citizen discovered

Paris - The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the oldest object in the universe: Galaxy UDFy-38135539, which is approximately 600 million years old. However, scientists are already discussing the likelihood of discovering an object older than that.

In the Media by Andrew Moran - 1 comment

Hubble captures pictures of bizarre X-shaped object

Washington - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first snapshots of a suspected asteroid collision - the images show a bizarre X-shaped object at the head of a comet-like trail of material.

In the Media by Kim I. Hartman - 3 comments

Hubble takes first pics of Pluto’s surface

Pluto is cute. It’s an elegant little gold and black ball, and even if it’s no longer called a planet, I’d like to adopt it. Hubble took four years to put these pictures together, and they’re fuzzy but intriguing.

In the Media by Paul Wallis - 1 comment

Miniature galaxies- Hubble goes back 13.1 billion years

Fixing the Hubble space telescope has allowed it to get on with its job, and the infrared images coming back are of truly primitive, tiny, galaxies. They’re 5 per cent the size of the Milky Way. The new information is opening up a lot of new questions.

In the Media by Paul Wallis - 2 comments

First Images from Rejuvenated Hubble Released

The Hubble is one of the most complex space telescopes ever launched. It has recently undergone major surgery but astronomers have declared it completely rejuvenated and have now released the first new images from the 19 year old observatory.

In the Media by Kevin Jess - 3 comments

Op-Ed: NASA Blues- Hubble fixed, JWST ready, culture comatose

The last Hubble servicing mission is high risk. Hazards include the inevitable space garbage, micro meteorites, and scheduling issues. Despite which, America’s ever-shriveling space program, to its credit, has managed to coax a mission into orbit.

In the Media by Paul Wallis

NASA's Last Trip to Hubble

The Space Shuttle Atlantis will be making the fifth and final shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope on Monday, May 11, 2009.

In the Media by Brandon McPhail

Hubble scores first actual picture of planets outside our Solar System

It’s taken eight years, but this is a truly never to be repeated event. Formalhaut b, 25 light years away, is a speck, but it’s the first sight of other worlds by another star, two small ones and a giant. Astronomers are dancing in the streets.

In the Media by Paul Wallis - 2 comments

Hubble’s 100,000th orbit finds a jeweled pinup in the Tarantula Nebula

Hubble continues its astonishing career as a modern wonder of the world. It’s found a fabulous “firestorm of raw stellar creation” in the Large Magellanic Cloud. A color scheme that would terrify any artist, but it’s Hubble’s stock in trade.

In the Media by Paul Wallis - 1 comment

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Hubble telescope celebrates 22 years in space

The Hubble telescope celebrates 22 years of photographing of the universe on April 24, 2012

Hubble images reveal galaxy similar to Milky Way

The Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of a barred spiral galaxy — a galaxy similar to our own and expected to give astronomers a better insight into the Milky Way.

Striking galaxy image from Hubble

The Hubble space telescope captures an image of a "barred spiral" galaxy that could help us better understand our own Milky Way.

NASA's Hubble telescope detects supernova

NASA's Hubble Telescope has discovered an ancient supernova, detecting the feeble glow of a star that exploded more than nine billion years ago.

Uranus's weird auroras captured by Hubble

Strange auroras that are very different from Earth's northern lights have been observed on Uranus using the Hubble Space Telescope.

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NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy has completed the second segment of flight tests with its telescope door open to prepare the observatory for first mission.

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