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NASA, SpaceX Continue Ongoing Study Regarding Hubble Space Telescope Reboost Possibilities
The non-exclusive SpaceX study regarding the possibilities of rebooting the Hubble Space Telescope is ongoing. […]
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NASA, SpaceX Sign Agreement to Study Hubble Space Telescope’s Reboost Possibility
NASA and SpaceX signed an unfunded Space Act Agreement Thursday, Sept. 22, to study the feasibility of a SpaceX and Polaris Program idea to boost the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope into a higher orbit with the Dragon spacecraft, at no cost to the government. […]
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Captures Sea of Stars Like ‘Sequins’
The Hubble Space Telescope captured this glittering scene using its Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys. […]
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NASA Continues Next Steps to Return Hubble Telescope Instruments to Normal Operation Status
The Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys has continued collecting science data as NASA works to address the anomaly that started Oct 25. […]
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IMAGE OF THE DAY: NASA’s Hubble Telescope Captures Mysterious ‘Superbubble’ Within Nebula
N44 is a complex nebula filled with glowing hydrogen gas, dark lanes of dust, massive stars, and many populations of stars of different ages. […]
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WATCH: NASA’s Hubble Astronomers Discover Pair of Quasars Among Merging Galaxies
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is “seeing double.” Peering back 10 billion years into the universe’s past, Hubble astronomers found a pair of quasars that are so close to each other they look like a single object in ground-based telescopic photos, but not in Hubble’s crisp view. […]
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WATCH: Hubble Captures the Galaxy’s Biggest Ongoing Stellar Fireworks Show
Imagine slow-motion fireworks that started exploding 170 years ago and are still continuing. This type of firework is not launched into Earth’s atmosphere, but rather into space by a doomed super-massive star, called Eta Carinae, the largest member of a double-star system. […]
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: Tiny Neptune Moon Spotted by Hubble May Have Broken from Larger Moon
Astronomers call it “the moon that shouldn’t be there.” After several years of analysis, a team of planetary scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has at last come up with an explanation for a mysterious moon around Neptune that they discovered with Hubble in 2013. […]
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SPACE HISTORY: NASA Hubble Space Telescope Celebrates 25 Years Since First Repair Mission in Space
On May 20, 1990, you could hear a pin drop as a room full of scientists waited breathlessly for the initial images from the first major optical telescope in space. […]
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: Finding an Elusive Star Behind a Supernova, Once Existed in Spiral Galaxy NGC 3938
Located 65 million light-years away is a blue supergiant star that once existed inside a cluster of young stars in the spiral galaxy NGC 3938, as shown in this artist’s concept. […]
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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Hubble Satellite Goes Wide to Seek Out Far-Flung Galaxies
The universe is a big place. The Hubble Space Telescope’s views burrow deep into space and time, but cover an area a fraction the angular size of the full Moon. The challenge is that these “core samples” of the sky may not fully represent the universe at large. […]
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: Hubble Space Telescope Lucky Observation of an Enigmatic Cloud
The little-known nebula IRAS 05437+2502 billows out among the bright stars and dark dust clouds that surround it in this striking image from the Hubble Space Telescope. […]
