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WFIRST: Uncovering the Mysteries of the Universe—Updated 4k version
WFIRST, the Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope, is a NASA observatory designed to settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics. The telescope has a primary mirror that is 2.4 meters in...
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Solar System Surprises : Hubble’s Universe
Celebrating 30 years in orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed astonishing secrets about our universe. Yet, while its most famous pictures may reveal galaxies and nebulas across the cosmos, it’s also unlocked secrets here in our...
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Record Broken: Hubble Spots Farthest Star Ever Seen
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the universe’s birth in the big bang—the farthest individual star ever seen to...
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NASA | Zombie Fomalhaut b: Study of Hubble Data Revives a 'Dead' Exoplanet
A second look at data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is reanimating the claim that the nearby star Fomalhaut hosts a massive exoplanet. The study suggests that the planet, named Fomalhaut b, is a rare and possibly unique object that...
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Hubble and Going Forward to the Moon
We are going forward to the Moon by 2024, but did you know that back in 2005, Dr. Jim Garvin and his team of scientists pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at our nearest celestial neighbor for a very important reason? The Hubble team...
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How Hubble’s Servicing Mission 3A Saved the Day
After Hubble’s important gyroscopes began to fail, a Hubble emergency was declared and Servicing Mission 3 was quickly split into two separate launches. So on Dec. 19, 1999, the brave crew of space shuttle Discovery lifted off to switch...
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Mini-Jet Found Near Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
Our Milky Way’s central black hole has a leak! This supermassive black hole, over 4 million times more massive than our Sun, looks like it still has the remnants of a blowtorch-like jet dating back several thousand years. NASA’s Hubble...
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Hubble's New Image of Interstellar Object
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers their best look yet at an interstellar visitor – Comet 2I/Borisov – whose speed and trajectory indicates it is from outside of our solar system. This Hubble image, taken on Oct. 12, is...
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Hubble Directly Images Possible Plumes on Europa
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took direct ultraviolet images of the icy moon Europa transiting across the disk of Jupiter. Out of ten observations, Hubble saw what may be water vapor plumes on three of the images. This adds another piece...
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Goddard + Hubble, Valentines Since 1984 (Longer Cut)
Hubble's Space Telescope Operations Control Center (STOCC) had its ribbon-cutting ceremony at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Valentine's Day, 1984, beginning a long-lasting relationship that thrives to this...
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Discovering Eurybates' Satellite
On Jan. 9, 2020, the Lucy Mission officially announced that it would be visiting not seven, but eight asteroids. As it turns out, Eurybates, one of the asteroids along Lucy’s path, has a small satellite. Shortly after the Lucy team...
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NASA | Vision. Hope. Triumph
During the STS-125 pre-launch press conference Heidi Hammel, a Senior Research Scientist from the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, expresses her views on the past, present, and future of the Hubble Space Telescope and its...
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NASA | TDRS: The Network That Enables Exploration
NASA is preparing to launch the second in a series of three, third generation advanced Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, known as TDRS. This latest addition to the fleet of eight, TDRS-L will augment a space communications network that...
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Hubble’s Servicing Mission 4 Celebrates its Ten-Year Anniversary
On May 11, 2009, the brave crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off to make NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope more powerful than ever before. Hubble's Servicing Mission 4 (SM4) was the most ambitious and complicated to date. Changing out...
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Hubble’s Servicing Mission 3A
What was originally conceived as a mission of preventive maintenance turned more urgent on Nov. 13, 1999, when the fourth of six gyros failed and Hubble temporarily closed its eyes on the universe. Unable to conduct science without three...
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Hubble Trivia: 5) What Does Hubble Use to Turn Itself and Point at a Target?
The Hubble Space Telescope has been revealing the secrets of the universe for over 30 years, but it turns out Hubble has some secrets of its own! The question is: What does Hubble use to turn itself and point at a target? You might be...
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Hubble Science: Starbirth Nebulae, Cosmic Cradles
For the past 31 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has continued its important mission of uncovering the mysteries of the universe. One of those mysteries that Hubble has helped us begin to understand are the beautiful nebulae in space....
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Hubble Science: Dark Energy, A Mysterious Force
For the past 31 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has continued its important mission of uncovering the mysteries of the universe. One of those mysteries that Hubble has helped us begin to understand is dark energy and dark matter. Video...
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Hubble Science: Black Holes, From Myth to Reality
For the past 30 years the Hubble Space Telescope has continued its important mission of uncovering the mysteries of the universe. One of those mysteries that Hubble has helped us understand is black holes. Director, Producer & Editor:...
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Hubble Explores the Final Frontier
In celebration of Star Trek's new movie and 50th anniversary, the Hubble Space Telescope is sharing its newest Frontier Field image, which uses a clever trick from nature to boldly observe what no telescope has observed before. Credit:...
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Hubble and Whale Sharks?
While you might not think that sharks and the Hubble Space Telescope have a lot in common, it turns out they share an incredible bond! Music: “Happy Tulip” by Stéphane Caisson [SACEM], Koka Media [SACEM], via Universal Publishing...
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Sonification of the Butterfly Nebula
This spectacular Hubble image of the Butterfly Nebula shows a colorful view of star death. The "wings" of the butterfly are regions of gas heated to more than 36,000° F (about 20,000° C) that are tearing across space at more than 600,000...
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New NASA Mini-Series: Hubble Tool Time
Tuesdays starting on April 16, 2019, we will be releasing a new six-part mini-series about the tools used on Hubble's servicing missions, hosted by retired NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld. Hubble was uniquely designed to be serviced in...
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NASA | Hubble Memorable Moments: Powering Down
In this first video of NASA's Hubble Memorable Moments series celebrating Hubble's 25 years, the telescope must be completely powered off to replace Hubble's heart. In 1999, engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center discovered that...