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Hubble’s New Instrument

1 comment dhani — May 24, 2009 / 11:41 pm

Hubble Space Telescope has been launched by the shuttle Discovery in 1990. It released into an orbit 304 nautical miles above the Earth. Since then it’s circled Earth more than 97,000 times and provided more than 4,000 astronomers access to the stars not possible from inside Earth’s atmosphere. Hubble has helped answer some of science’s [...]

Fountain of Youth: Celebrating Hubble’s 19th Anniversary

Comments dhani — May 11, 2009 / 10:00 pm

Over the past 19 years Hubble has taken dozens of exotic pictures of galaxies going “bump in the night” as they collide with each other and have a variety of close encounters of the galactic kind. Just when you thought these interactions couldn’t look any stranger, this image of a trio of galaxies, called Arp [...]

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