Hubble Space Telescope

Book Review: “Infinite Worlds: People & Places of Space Exploration” by Michael Soluri

On April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched from Kennedy Space Center into low Earth orbit. Hubble was…

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Sadly, There won’t be a LEGO Hubble Space Telescope

This week the official LEGO review board announced their newest official LEGO model kits that were chosen from fan-suggested ideas,…

10 years ago

Obama Administration Proposes $18.5 Billion Budget for NASA – Bolden

The Obama Administration today (Feb. 2) proposed a NASA budget allocation of $18.5 Billion for the new Fiscal Year 2016,…

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The Milky Way’s New Neighbor May Tell Us Things About the Universe

As part of the Local Group, a collection of 54 galaxies and dwarf galaxies that measures 10 million light years…

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Just in Time for the Holidays – Galactic Encounter Puts on Stunning Display

At this time of year, festive displays of light are to be expected. This tradition has clearly not been lost…

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Subaru Telescope Spots Galaxies From The Early Universe

It's an amazing thing, staring into deep space with the help of a high-powered telescope. In addition to being able…

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It’s Complicated: Hubble Survey Finds Unexpected Diversity in Dusty Discs Around Nearby Stars

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have completed the largest and most sensitive visible-light imaging survey of the debris disks…

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Hubble Spots the Ghostly Light From Dead Galaxies

In a patch of sky 3.5 billion light-years away there are hazy elliptical galaxies, colorful spirals, blue arcs and distorted…

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Just In Time for Halloween: Jupiter Gets a Giant Cyclops Eye!

Halloween is just around the corner. And in what appears to be an act of cosmic convergence, Hubble captured a…

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Hubble Spots Farthest Lensing Galaxy Yet

Sometimes there’s a chance alignment — faraway in the universe, where objects are separated by unimaginable distances measured in billions of…

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