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Hubble Finds Most Distant Galaxy Ever Seen in Universe

flyingeraser — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 04:41:19 +0000

Happy 20th Birthday to the Hubble Space Telescope

flyingeraser — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 04:31:29 +0000

ScienceMagazine — April 24, 2010 — 20 years ago, on the 24 April 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery launched the Hubble Space Telescope, a joint NASA-ESA mission. Its discoveries have resulted in, quite probably, the most significant advances in astronomy since Galileo’s telescope…

Source: ScienceMagazine

Hubble’s Eye on the Universe in HD

flyingeraser — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:47:12 +0000

The JPL designed and built Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 brought the universe to Earth with its images of baby stars, galaxies, supernovas and more.

Source: JPL / NASA

First Solid Exoplanet Discovered: CoRoT-7b

flyingeraser — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:15:09 +0000

Sep 16, 2009 – scientists with the European Southern Observatory have announced the discovery of the first solid Exoplanet, CoRoT-7b.

For more info: http://www.esa.org

Amazing Images: Hubble Opens New Eyes on the Universe

flyingeraser — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:37:16 +0000

Scientists have concluded the checkout period for NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and now are revealing images showcasing the power of the much-improved observatory. This video chronicles the checkout period after Hubble’s Servicing Mission 4. Also included is the unexpected diversion from the usual calibration procedures to focus the telescope on a possible comet collision on the planet Jupiter.

First Images From Reloaded Hubble Telescope

flyingeraser — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:17:04 +0000

These are the first images from the Hubble Space Telescope after a billion-dollar repair that included installing new cameras and replacing broken parts. 09.09.09

Source: Associated Press

Millions Of Earths

flyingeraser — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:52:39 +0000

Kepler is over 10,000,000 miles from Earth and continues in its drift away, heliocentric orbit. The Kepler team has just completed another science data download from the spacecraft. The operation involved all of the NASA Deep Space Network sites. Science data collected since early July by Kepler were included in the download. This was also the first time that the Canberra Deep Space Network was used for a science data download since Kepler science operations began on May 12, 2009.

Additionally, another Kepler first was achieved in this science data download. The Australian Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) supported Kepler in a shadow-track mode, while the Canberra Deep Space Network site was supporting science data download operations. The ATCA could be used as a possible back-up to the Canberra site in the future for Kepler science operations.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/Kowch737

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D

flyingeraser — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:29:35 +0000

An animation that was rendered using the measured redshift of all 10,000 galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image.

Every galaxy in the image is in its proper distance as viewed from the telescope line of sight.

Animation Credit:

Hubble Cosmological Redshift Animation Courtesy:

Mike Gallis

Music Used in this video was purchased from stockmusic.net and belongs to the Spirit Legends Collection.

The tunes used were:

Voice Redo B
Voice in the Dark

Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/tdarnell

Kepler Exoplanet Hunter: News Briefing 080609

flyingeraser — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:08:27 +0000

Kepler Mission News Conference talking about the latest updates on NASA’s Kepler Mission.

Kepler team members say these new data indicate the mission is indeed capable of finding Earth-like planets, if they exist. Kepler will spend the next three-and-a-half years searching for planets as small as Earth, including those that orbit stars in a warm zone where there could be water. It will do this by looking for periodic dips in the brightness of stars, which occur when orbiting planets transit, or cross in front of, the stars.

“When the light curves from tens of thousands of stars were shown to the Kepler science team, everyone was awed; no one had ever seen such exquisitely detailed measurements of the light variations of so many different types of stars,” said William Borucki, the principal science investigator and lead author of the paper.

Kepler Mission: Are There Other Earths Out There?

flyingeraser — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:53:38 +0000

NASA’s Kepler mission is starting its hunt for other “Earths” in our galaxy.

Jane Platt interviews Kepler Project Manager Jim Fanson of Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

More information on the Kepler mission is online at http://www.nasa.gov/kepler