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Wednesday, 13 January 2010 22:15

We now know why galaxies have so many shapes: Collisions

The evolution of galaxies has taken a diverse road over 13.7 billion years or so. Their shapes were classified by U.S. astronomer Edwin Hubble in the 1930s. Now, in the 2010s, two U.S. physicists have finally, for the first time, explained in detail how and why those shapes came to be.

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Monday, 21 December 2009 11:17

Shining a light on dark matter

Emerging from 800m underground comes the first real suggestion that dark matter may actually exist.  Dark matter is seeing the light, as it were.
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Wednesday, 26 November 2008 02:59

Hubble homes in on huge stars

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided a detailed image of two of our galaxy's most massive stars.
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Friday, 14 November 2008 10:35

Astronomical first: Hubble sees an exosolar planet!

For the first time, astronomers have directly observed a planet orbiting a star other than our own Sun. The historic image was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Sunday, 13 January 2008 21:23

Astronomers hit Einsteinian jackpot

An international team of scientists used the Hubble Space Telescope to find a never-before-seen  double Einstein ring. The important discovery helps astronomers learn more about dark matter, dark energy, and curved space of the universe.         
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Wednesday, 09 January 2008 04:06

Hubble repair scheduled for August

Space Shuttle Atlantis has been scheduled for an August mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Tuesday, 08 January 2008 19:42

Building blocks of life found around star HR 4796A

A new U.S. study has found complex organic molecules, tholins, in the dust cloud around the star HR 4796A. The important conclusion of these researchers is that this discovery provides good evidence that living organisms are common throughout planetary systems.            
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Sunday, 30 December 2007 20:37

Aliens could see Earth as haven for life

According to a study performed by U.S. and Spanish astronomers, alien astronomers could “hypothetically” identify Earth as a planet orbiting the Sun and observe our planet with clouds and oceans—just like we are trying to do with planets circling other stars.              
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Tuesday, 18 December 2007 19:49

Black hole inside 'œdeath star galaxy' fires on sister galaxy

According to NASA, a black hole at the center of a large galaxy is assaulting its smaller sister galaxy with a jet full of deadly radiation. The two galaxies, called 3C321, are in orbit about each other.              
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Wednesday, 03 October 2007 17:45

Hubble snaps brilliant image of young star cluster inside NGC 3603

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced an image of a star cluster that contains stars with different masses but similar ages. The stars have evolved differently, making it easy for scientists to learn more about the various life-stages of stars from one location.         
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Monday, 10 September 2007 19:10

Hubble loses another gyroscope but keeps on ticking

On September 1, 2007, gyroscope Gyro 2 failed on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). With a NASA repair mission scheduled for August 7, 2008, Hubble will have to operate until that time with only two gyros.        
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Tuesday, 04 September 2007 20:35

Lucky camera, Palomar telescope takes sharper space photos than Hubble

The Lucky Imaging System (“Lucky”), developed by U.S. and U.K. astronomers, uses a new adaptive optics system, which is able to take out much of the distortion from Earth’s atmosphere,  in order to produce some of the best digital images from ground telescopes.           
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Friday, 24 August 2007 20:06

Keck, Hubble take sharpest pixs yet of Uranus' rings

A team of astronomers used ground and space based telescopes to take images of the dark, unlit portion of the rings of Uranus that, for the first time, were photographed glare-free.        
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Thursday, 24 May 2007 21:01

Visits to NASA Webb telescope possible with new docking ring

Imagine docking with Hubble, which is about 590 kilometers (365 miles) miles away. Now, imagine the thrill of docking with the James Webb Space Telescope, which will be positioned about 1.5 million kilometers (900,000 miles) from the Earth.
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Wednesday, 16 May 2007 07:19

Hubble finds first for dark matter: Separate ring around galaxy cluster

The Hubble Space Telescope finds a ring of “dark matter” expanding from a large collision between two galaxy clusters—completely away from ordinary matter, which is a first for the detection of dark matter.
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Saturday, 12 May 2007 01:00

James Webb Space Telescope: A look forward and backward in time

A full-scale, not-quite-exact replica of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the space observatory set to replace the Hubble Space Telescope in 2013, is on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (National Mall, in Washington, D.C.).

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Friday, 11 May 2007 14:26

Hubble telescope successor on target

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The James Webb Space Telescope, intended to peer deep into the cosmos from beyond the moon, is progressing well in development and is on track for a planned June 2013 launch, officials said on Thursday.

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Thursday, 03 May 2007 03:01

Hubble observations challenge conventional theories

The discovery of three generations of stars in globular cluster by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope has brought conventional theories of star formation into question.
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Wednesday, 02 May 2007 09:42

Euro spacecraft tracker goes online

The European Space Agency has made it easy for casual stargazers to find out where ESA and ESA-related spacecraft are at present.
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Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:37

Hubble Space Telescope observes 17 candles on birthday cake

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched on April 24, 1990. On Tuesday, April 24, 2007, the observatory begins its eighteenth year of operations.       
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