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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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NASA | Laser Comm: That's a Bright Idea
Laser light made records obsolete. NASA is on the verge of doing the same thing with space based communications. Before the end of the decade, the Laser Communication Relay Demonstration (LCRD) mission will revolutionize the way we move...
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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...
The March of Time
1953: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: HEYDEN OBSERVATORY: VS Director Father Francis J. Heyden opening trap door, students following up stairs, gathering around telescope, SOT talking about size, larger than Galileo's, MS Grad students looking up, dome opening.
MOT 1953: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: HEYDEN OBSERVATORY: VS Director Father Francis J. Heyden opening trap door, students following up stairs, gathering around telescope, SOT talking about size, larger than Galileo's, MS Grad students...
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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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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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A Day in the Life of a NASA Satellite Team
Launched on Nov. 20, 2004, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has been on the hunt to uncover the mystery of the universe’s most powerful explosions: gamma-ray bursts. These extreme events are some of the farthest objects we’ve ever...
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Webb Telescope Mirror Rollover Timelapse
In this rare timelapse video, see inside the world's largest clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland as the James Webb Space Telescope team lifts and turns the telescope for the first time. With glimmering...
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Speaking Part 2 Trick to Extend Fluency- Before/During/After
Today you’ll learn an IELTS Speaking Part 2 trick to extend your fluency: before/during/after.
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Webb Telescope ISIM Instrument Installation Timelapse
Time lapse video of two dozen engineers and technicians successfully installing the package of science instruments of the James Webb Space Telescope into the telescope structure. These science instruments are known as the Integrated...
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Webb Moves to Johnson Space Center
May 2017 marked the end of an era for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center because the James Webb Space Telescope has moved to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. Webb has been at Goddard in some form for 21 years. And with the...
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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’s James Webb Space Telescope Clears Critical Sunshield Deployment Testing
In October 2019, technicians and engineers successfully performed a critical test on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope by fully deploying and properly tensioning each of its five uniquely sized sunshield layers, putting them into the...
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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...