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NASA | Inside Hubble's Control Room During a Spacewalk
Keith Walyus describes the experience of the Servicing Mission 4 spacewalks as head of communications in the Goddard STOCC. The Space Operations Control Center, also known as the STOCC, is responsible 24/7, 365 days a year for monitoring...
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Landmark Achieved as NASA’s Webb Telescope Comes Together
The most powerful and complex space science telescope ever created by humankind is one step closer to launch. As seen in a new video, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently reached a key milestone after its two halves were...
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Intergalactic Elegance : Hubble’s Universe
Hubble has seen galaxies at the edge of the visible universe. It has unlocked a cosmos so vast and filled with wonder that it boggles the mind. The Hubble Telescope has learned how galaxies merge, and found the powerful jets from massive...
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Hubble’s Brand New Image of Eta Carinae
In the mid-1800s, mariners sailing the southern seas navigated at night by a brilliant star in the constellation Carina. The star, named Eta Carinae, was the second brightest star in the sky for more than a decade. Those mariners could...
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Hubble Uncovers Concentration of Small Black Holes
Astronomers on the hunt for an intermediate-mass black hole at the heart of the globular cluster NGC 6397, found something they weren’t expecting: a concentration of smaller black holes lurking there instead of one massive black hole....
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Hubble Trivia: 16) What has Hubble helped reveal about Jupiter’s Great Red Spot?
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 has Hubble helped reveal about Jupiter’s Great Red Spot? You might be...
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Hubble Spots Comet Near Jupiter
After traveling several billion miles toward the Sun, a wayward young comet-like object orbiting among the giant planets has found a temporary parking place along the way. The object has settled near a family of captured ancient...
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Hubble Shows Torrential Outflows from Infant Stars May Not Stop Them from Growing
Though our galaxy is an immense city of at least 200 billion stars, the details of how they formed remain largely cloaked in mystery. Scientists know that stars form from the collapse of huge hydrogen clouds that are squeezed under...
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5 Things: Space Servicing
Just as cars need maintenance on Earth, sometimes spacecraft need fixing, too. 🛠️ When astronauts work on spacecraft in orbit, it's called space servicing. Want to know more about space servicing? Leave your questions in the comments...
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NASA | A Laser Scientist Answers 5 Questions About LVIS
With winter closing in, a new NASA airborne campaign launched October 31, 2013 in Greenland. For the first time, the Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor, or LVIS, is flying about NASA's new C-130 aircraft to measure the island's ice...
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Mystery of Galaxy’s Missing Dark Matter Deepens
When astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope uncovered an oddball galaxy that looks like it doesn’t have much dark matter, some thought the finding was hard to believe and looked for a simpler explanation. Dark matter, after all,...
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Hubble's 30th Anniversary Celebration
In 2020, the Hubble Space Telescope achieved its 30th year in orbit. Hubble’s unique design, allowing it to be repaired and upgraded with advanced technology by astronauts, has made it one of NASA’s longest-living and most valuable...
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NASA | Hubble SM4 Launch: Behind the Scenes at Goddard
Employees at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center cheered and applauded as shuttle Atlantis successfully launched at 2:01:56 p.m. ET on May 11. The Atlantis crew embarked on the fifth and final shuttle mission to the Hubble Space...
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Hubble’s 29th Year in Orbit
On April 24, 2019, the Hubble Space Telescope celebrated its 29th year in orbit by premiering a never-before-seen view of the Southern Crab Nebula. Even after all these years, Hubble continues to uncover the mysteries of the universe....
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Hubble's Extraordinary ULLYSES Program
The universe would be a pretty boring place without stars. Without them, the universe would remain a diffuse plasma of mostly hydrogen and helium from the big bang. To better understand stellar evolution, a new Hubble initiative has been...
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Hubble: Voyage of Discovery
The Hubble Space Telescope has transformed our understanding of the universe, its view from orbit unleashing a flood of cosmic discoveries that have changed astronomy forever. From its discovery of dark energy to its quest to determine...
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Hubble Spots Giant Space ‘Pumpkin’
Halloween is scarier with Hubble! What looks like two glowing eyes and a crooked carved smile is a snapshot of the early stages of a collision between two galaxies. The entire view is nearly 109,000 light-years across, approximately the...
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Alex Young Mercury Transit Live Shot from NASA Goddard
From an Earth-based perspective, Mercury passes between our planet and the sun only about 13 times a century. May 9, 2016, will be the last opportunity to see the event, known as a transit, until 2019. In this video Dr. Alex Young, of...
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Sonification of the Bubble Nebula
In this Hubble image, a super-hot, massive star is blowing an enormous bubble into space. Fittingly named the Bubble Nebula, this beautiful cosmic object is roughly seven light-years across and resides 7,100 light-years from Earth....
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NASA | Update: Hubble SM4 Flight Day 4
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 | Update: Hubble SM4 Flight Day 2
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 telescopes science observations. Two teams of flight controllers designated...
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NASA | HD STS-125 Launch for Hubble SM4
Atlantis and the STS-125 crew lifted off on a mission on May 11, to upgrade the world's most famous telescope. Goddard plays a major role in the Hubble servicing mission. Astronauts trained with sophisticated Hubble models in Goddard...
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NASA | Get Ready for the August 1, 2008 Total Solar Eclipse
On August 1, 2008 a rare total solar eclipse will appear in the skies over parts of Canada, Greenland, Russia, Mongolia, and China. During this spectacular event, the moon will cross in front of the sun, completely blocking out the sun's...
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NASA | Hubble's 20th - A 3D Trip into the Carina Nebula
This is a three-dimensional trip into a giant "mountain" of cool hydrogen and dust in the Carina Nebula, a vast star-forming region in our Milky Way Galaxy. The nebula is too far away for Hubble Space Telescope to see in true three...