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Lyman Spitzer: Making Space For Hubble
Seventy-five years ago, astronomer Lyman Spitzer envisioned a future for space exploration that deepened humanity’s curiosity about the cosmos. A visionary behind the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer was among the earliest astronomers...
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Hubble’s Servicing Mission 4
The Hubble Space Telescope was reborn with Servicing Mission 4 (SM4), the fifth and final servicing of the orbiting observatory. During SM4, two new scientific instruments were installed – the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) and Wide...
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Hubble Spots Giant Flapping Shadow
In 2017, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a huge wing-shaped shadow cast by a fledgling star’s unseen, planet-forming disk. The young star, called HBC 672, is casting the shadow across a more distant cloud in a...
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Hubble Finds Water Vapor On Distant Exoplanet
With data from the Hubble Space Telescope, water vapor has been detected in the atmosphere of an exoplanet within the habitable zone of its host star. K2-18b, which is eight times the mass of Earth, is the only planet orbiting a star...
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Hubble Trivia: 11) How much data can Hubble store on board?
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: How much data can Hubble store on board? You might be surprised! See if...
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Ahead of its Time: Hubble’s Control Center
Dedicated on Feb. 14, 1984, at NASA Goddard’s Space Flight Center, the STOCC, or the Space Telescope Operations Control Center, operates the Hubble Space Telescope on its important mission. The Operations Team members at the STOCC...
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Hubble’s Grand Tour of the Outer Solar System
From its vantage point high above Earth’s atmosphere, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has completed its annual grand tour of the outer solar system – returning crisp images that are almost as good as earlier snapshots from interplanetary...
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Goddard at 60
On July 29, 1958, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. When it began operations on Oct. 1, 1958, NASA consisted mainly of the four...
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Hubble’s Brand New Image of Saturn
This new Hubble Space Telescope view of Saturn, taken in late June of 2019, reveals the giant planet's iconic rings. Saturn’s amber colors come from summer smog-like hazes, produced in photochemical reactions driven by solar ultraviolet...
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Hubble’s 30th Anniversary Image
On April 24, 2020, the Hubble Space Telescope celebrates its 30th year in orbit by premiering a never-before-seen view of two beautiful nebulas named NGC 2020 and NGC 2014. Hubble's senior project scientist, Dr. Jennifer Wiseman, takes...
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Hubble Trivia: 10) How Much Exposure Time Did it Take to Capture the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Image?
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: How much exposure time did it take to capture the Hubble Ultra Deep Field...
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Conversation with Kevin Hartnett
Kevin Hartnett is the Science Operations Manager for the Hubble Space Telescope at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. In this Conversations with Goddard video, Hartnett discusses how he became interested in...
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Virtual Tour of the Hubble Control Center: Exhibit Hallway Part 1
Explore the second half of the exhibit hallway in the Hubble control center to view hardware that once flew in space aboard Hubble as well as tools that astronauts used to repair and upgrade the observatory. This is part 5 of 5 of a...
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NASA's Hubble Memorable Moments: Comet Impact
In July 1994, the Hubble Space Telescope was poised to use its newly fixed optics to observe one of the most impressive astronomical events of the century - the 21 fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting Jupiter. But these...
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NASA | Update: Hubble SM4 Flight Day 3
The Space Operations Control Center, also known as the STOCC, is responsible 24/7, 365 days a year for monitoring all Hubble systems and facilitating all of the telescope's science observations. Two teams of flight controllers designated...
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Hubble Servicing Mission 1: From the Astronauts' Perspective
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s first servicing mission, astronauts Kathryn Thornton and Jeffrey Hoffman told the story of that successful, groundbreaking mission during a livestream event from...
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NASA | Hubble and STS-125 Grapple
Space shuttle Atlantis met up with the Hubble Space Telescope today. The grapple of the telescope using the shuttles robotic arm took place at 1:14 p.m. EDT. The telescope will be latched to a high-tech, lazy Susan device known as the...
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NASA | Hubble Team Reactions at the Telescope's Release
The Hubble Space Telescope has been with us for nearly two decades. In that time, its breathtaking images have captured peoples imaginations and its groundbreaking science has revealed some of the many secrets of our universe. After five...
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We Asked NASA Scientists and Astronauts “What is your Favorite Hubble Image?”
Over the years, Hubble video producer Paul Morris has had the amazing opportunity to interview some of the brightest minds in astrophysics, and some of the coolest astronauts and people in the world. As a rule, he always asked every...
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Visit Hubble Operations for its 28th Anniversary in 360°
The Hubble Space Telescope has orbited Earth for more than 28 years, changing the way we look at the universe. Here at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, we’ll take you inside the Space Telescope Operations...
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NASA | Update: Hubble SM4 Flight Day 5
The Space Operations Control Center, also known as the STOCC, is responsible 24/7, 365 days a year for monitoring all Hubble systems and facilitating all of the telescope's science observations. Two teams of flight controllers designated...
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NASA | The Last Mission to Hubble
Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4 is the last time humans will visit Hubble. NASAs scientists, engineers and astronauts are working together to make Hubble better than it has been before. See what NASA has planned for this last...
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Live Interview from International Space Station with Hubble Astronaut Megan McArthur
Watch live as astronaut Megan McArthur speaks with us from the International Space Station! We’ll discuss her role on the Hubble mission and her current work as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2. Stay tuned for a Q&A!
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NASA | Making Hubble More Powerful
The Hubble Space Telescope would not be able to produce its breathtaking science without the upgraded infrastructure targeted during the HST SM4 mission: Fine Guidance Sensor, Scientific Instrument Command and Data Handling, Soft Capture...