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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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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...
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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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Episode 3: Time Machines (Hubble – Eye in the Sky miniseries)
Episode 3: Time Machines – Hubble has looked back billions of years in time to see some of the earliest galaxies in their infancy, and it has fundamentally changed what we know about the universe itself. Find out from Nobel laureate John...
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Simulated Image Demonstrates the Power of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will capture the equivalent of 100 high-resolution Hubble images in a single shot, imaging large areas of the sky more than 1,000 times faster than Hubble. In several months, the Roman Space...
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The Roman Space Telescope's Wide Field Instrument
In order to know how the universe will end, we must know what has happened to it so far. This is just one mystery NASA's forthcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission will tackle as it explores the distant cosmos. The...
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Envisioning an Ultra-Deep Field from NASA's Roman Space Telescope
A team of astrophysicists has created a simulated image that shows how the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could conduct a mega-exposure similar to but far larger than Hubble’s celebrated Ultra-Deep Field Image. This Hubble observation...
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NASA | Hubble's Cosmic Origins Spectrograph
Once installed on the Hubble Space Telescope during the upcoming servicing mission this year, COS will dramatically advance physics and astrophysics research on the origin of the Universe, astronomical objects, evolution of galaxies, and...
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Hubble finds a Black Hole Igniting Star Formation in a Dwarf Galaxy
Black holes are often described as the monsters of the universe—tearing apart stars, consuming anything that comes too close, and holding light captive. Detailed evidence from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, however, shows a black hole in...
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NASA | Webb Space Telescope Integrated Science Instrument Module Begins Final Cryogenic Test
Engineers place the heart of the James Webb Space Telescope into the Space Environment Simulator, a giant thermal vacuum and cryogenic testing chamber, at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. You can find out more...
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One Image, One Million Galaxies
One of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most iconic images is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which unveiled myriad galaxies across the universe, stretching back to within a few hundred million years of the Big Bang. Hubble peered at a single...
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Simulated Image Shows the Power of NASA’s WFIRST
NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, WFIRST, will capture the equivalent of 100 high-resolution Hubble images in a single shot, imaging large areas of the sky 1,000 times faster than Hubble. In several months, WFIRST could survey...
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NASA | Exoplanet Atmosphere Blasted by Stellar Flare
An international team of astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected significant changes in the atmosphere of a planet located beyond our solar system. The scientists conclude the atmospheric variations...
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WFIRST's Wide Field Instrument
In order to know how the universe will end, we must know what has happened to it so far. This is just one mystery NASA's forthcoming Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission will tackle as it explores the distant cosmos. The...
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NASA | Disk Detective: Search for Planetary Habitats
A new NASA-sponsored website, DiskDetective.org, lets the public discover embryonic planetary systems hidden among data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. The site is led and funded by NASA and developed by...
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Can You #SpotHubble?
Hubble is more than a science spacecraft; it’s a cultural phenomenon! Visit nasa.gov/hubble for more information on how you can share your images of Hubble in everyday life on social media with the hashtag #SpotHubble. Credit: NASA's...
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NASA | Zoom into Eta Carinae Nebula and New 3D Model
An international team of astronomers has developed a 3D model of a giant cloud ejected by the massive binary system Eta Carinae during its 19th century outburst. Eta Carinae lies about 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation...
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NASA | Scientists Create First Full 3D Model of Eta Carinae Nebula
An international team of astronomers has developed a 3D model of a giant cloud ejected by the massive binary system Eta Carinae during its 19th century outburst. Eta Carinae lies about 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation...
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5,000 Exoplanets: Listen to the Sounds of Discovery (NASA Data Sonification)
On March 21, 2022, the number of known exoplanets passed 5,000 according to the NASA Exoplanet Archive. This animation and sonification tracks humanity's discovery of the planets beyond our solar system over time. Turning NASA data into...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: How science literacy can save us from the internet | Big Think
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How scientists colorize photos of space
Yes, that’s a black and white photo. Become a Video Lab member! http://bit.ly/video-lab The Hubble Space Telescope only takes photos in black and white. To make those beautiful space photos you’ve probably seen, scientists add the color...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Science journalism has a problem | Big Think
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Spotlight: Things That Are Really There
Strip away the trimmings of a traditional science presentation, add cocktails, and you have WSF Spotlight. Here, astrophysicist Mario Livio, from the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute, takes us on a tour of the cosmos in all its...
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Space Telescope Debate
Students investigate the Hubble and Webb telescopes. In this space telescope instructional activity, students research Internet sites to find out what type of information these telescopes provide. They debate whether it is financially...