Category Archives: Hubble Telescope

How a star explosion tests Einstein #39;s Theory of Relativity
A team of international scientists studying space using the Hubble Telescope found a supernova explosion appeared multiple times in different places due to the impact of gravitation on light....

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New MUSE Instrument Sees Farther Than Hubble Telescope | Video
More space news and info at: http://www.coconutsciencelab.com - ESOcast 72 explores the new MUSE instrument on ESO #39;s Very Large Telescope, which has given astronomers the best ever ...

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Hubble Telescope and Saturn #39;s Auroras
This animation shows the fluttering aurorae that light up both of Saturn #39;s poles. Created by the interaction of the solar wind with the planet #39;s magnetic fie...

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NASA is getting ready to put part of the James Webb Space Telescope through a litany of cryogenic challenges that will simulate space.

The goal is to make sure the space telescope, which is set to launch in 2018 and be the eventual successor to the immensely successful Hubble Space Telescope, will be fully operational when it reaches its freezing destination 1 million miles from Earth.

NASA researchers will be watching especially close to see how the telescope performs in the newly renovated space simulating Chamber A at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The vacuum chamber is the same place where the Apollo spacecraft were tested.

Moving even a test part of what NASA said is the largest and most powerful space telescope ever built is no small feat. With the 3,000-pound Pathfinder Backplane in a clean room at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, the team glided in a shipping container on air pads, a move NASA likened to a puck on an air hockey table.

Using a crane, engineers were then able to lift the part and safely lower it into the Space Telescope Transporter for Air Road and Sea (STTARS), which was then hooked up to a semi truck that plodded along at a gentle 5 mph to the nearby Joint Base Andrews.

The largest cargo plane in the United States fleet, a C-5 military plane, then had the honor of flying to the engineers in Texas what will surely be a vital piece of space history.

We've got to test the test, Andrew Booth, a NASA engineer, said in a statement. "That's why this Pathfinder is so valuable because it will ensure the testing on the actual telescope is accurate."

The telescope is named for James Webb, a former NASA administrator, and is a collaboration with the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.

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How NASA Is Readying the Successor to the Hubble Telescope

The Hubble telescope just snapped a picture of an emoji. Seriously.
We #39;re seeing emoji everywhere these days! You probably have a friend who sends entire text messages made of nothing but emoji faces. Now even the Hubble tele...

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Galaxy Merger Caught by Hubble Telescope
A spiral galaxy gets twisted out of shape after coming too close to a cosmic neighbor in a gorgeous photo captured by NASA #39;s Hubble Space Telescope. The spir...

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The Hubble telescope has already taken a picture of the Beta Pictoris, a 20-million-year-old star surrounded by a large disk of dust and gas located 63.4 light years from our solar system, back in 1997. But in 2009, scientists discovered a giant planet orbiting that star once every 18 to 20 years -- the first planet they've ever seen that's embedded in a debris disk. So in 2012, they used the Hubble again to take a clearer picture of the star in visible light, which they've just released to the public. The image reveals that the disk has barely changed since 1997 and that the giant planet's gravity has distorted its inner part.

Due to this debris disk, the Beta Pictoris is a great example of what a young solar system looks like. All those rocks and gas, which are also the biggest source of interstellar meteoroids in our system, could be forming more new planets, and thus could lead to new insight on how planets are born.

[Image Credit: NASA, ESA, University of Arizona]

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Hubble photo of a star can help scientists study how planets are born

Hubble at 25 the James Webb Space Telescope: Dr. Amber Straughn
NASA Astrophysicist Dr. Amber Straughn discusses the 25th anniversary of the Hubble telescope #39;s launch as well as the construction and plans for the James We...

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Hubble telescope spots #39;smiley face #39; galaxies
The cluster of galaxies looks like a happy face with two orange eyes, a white nose and smile lines. The cluster of galaxies looks like a happy face with tw...

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MISSION TO MARS: SPACE TRAVEL - Discovery/Science/Space (documentary)
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