The Sombrero Galaxy - 28 million light years from Earth - was voted best picture taken by the Hubble telescope. The dimensions of the galaxy, officially called M104, are as spectacular as its appearance. It has 800 billion suns and is 50,000 light years across.he Ant Nebula, a cloud of dust and gas whose technical name is Mz3, resembles an ant when observed using ground-based telescopes.. . The
NASA said Monday that it is delaying its mission to the Hubble Space Telescope until next year because of a serious breakdown of the observatory in orbit.
Space shuttle Atlantis had been scheduled to blast off in just two weeks, but an unexpected problem with the Hubble appeared Saturday night, when the telescope stopped sending science [...]
The complicated Hubble repair and upgrade mission scheduled for October 14th just got even more complicated: Last Saturday, the Hubble's command and data-handling system broke down, rendering it unable to capture and transmit images to Earth.
(immagine, fonte Hubble Space Telescope e National Radio Astronomy Observatory)Questa davvero entusiasmante immagine presa dalla Wide-Field e Planetary Camera del telescopio spaziale Hubble ci mostra la galassia gigante NGC 4261, a 45 milioni di anni luce da noi. Essa ci appare come un disco sfumato di centinaia di milioni di stelle. E nel suo centro quello che si ritiene possa essere un buco nero
(immagine, fonte Nasa)Parliamo della prossima missione Shuttle, che dopo vari ritardi è in programma per il prossimo 10 ottobre. Si tratta della quinta ed ultima missione di servizio al telescopio spaziale Hubble, orbitante a 560 Km di altezza. Pur essendo la quinta volta che uno Shuttle visita Hubble questa missione è denominata SM4, Servicing Mission 4, per via del fatto che la SM3 fu divisa i
Il prossimo 11 agosto il Telescopio Spaziale Hubble supererà quota 100'000.Ma non saranno chilometri, bensì 100’000 orbite!Dal 24 aprile del 1990, quando è stato messo in posizione dallo Space Shuttle Discovery, ha viaggiato ininterrottamente attorno alla Terra per oltre 18 anni ad una velocità di circa 8 km/s ed ha percorso qualcosa come 4,35 miliardi di chilometri, come andata e ritorno ve
In 2003, the Hubble Space Telescope took the image of a millennium, an image that shows our place in the universe. Once you understand what this image represents, you will be forever changed by it.
An exercise in thought such as the one presented in this video can really allow folks to SURRENDER so much of their worries and feel secure that, in the big picture, the Divine takes care of it all --
An Aug. 28 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope has been moved to Oct.8 because of delays in building fuel tanks needed for the mission, NASA officials announced Thursday.
The shuttle's external tank was redesigned for safer launches after the 2003 Columbia accident. Falling foam from the tank punched a hole in the shuttle's wing, later exposing it to dangerous gases and heat on
Canberra, May 13 : Microsoft has launched a free downloadable software that can turn any computer into mini Hubble telescopes capable of displaying high resolution images of millions of stars, planets and other celestial bodies.
According to a report in The Age, developed by a small team at Microsoft Research, the software company’s key R andD [...]
NASA Releases Largest Collection of Hubble Images
In celebration of the 18th anniversary of Hubble’s launch, NASA released a series of 59 new images of colliding galaxies. Astronomy textbooks typically present galaxies as staid, solitary, and majestic island worlds of glittering stars.
But galaxies have a wild side. They have flirtatious close encounters that sometimes end in grand mergers
Lo que se podría describir como la partida de sumo más impactante del universo, o tal vez los bailes más sorprendente, han sido capturados por primera vez en cámara y reunidos en un extraordinario álbum de colisiones galácticas.Cada imagen, tomada por el Telescopio Espacial Hubble (HST), es una foto instantánea de el proceso continuo de las galaxias chocando entre si y envolviendose en un espiral."La danza gravitacional está teniendo lugar a lo largo de cientos de millones de años", explica el investigador Hubble Lars Lindberg Christensen de la Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA) en Garching, Alemania. (Lo que este quiere decir, es que ha pasado cientos de millones de años desde que se produjo los eventos y apenas ahora los podemos capturar para verlos...) "Una gran cantidad de las m
Se Hubble fosse il Cyborg di Blade Runner la frase: “Ho visto cose che voi umani non potete neppure immaginare” ci starebbe tutta, sfortunatamente per lui gli hanno montato una “fotocamera” addosso e quindi ce le immaginiamo eccome.
Per il 18° compleanno di Hubble, la NASA ha rilasciato 59 foto in alta definizione il cui soggetto: [...]
Today Hubble celebrates it’s 18 birthday.The Hubble Space Telescope, currently operated by the NASA/ESA collaboration. To make Hubble’s birthday memorable the collaboration releasing some 59 photographs that Hubble has taken in last 18 years. This Collaboration releasing around 59 images presenting dramatic galactic collisions, observed throughout the universe. Colliding galaxies often spell disaster for star [...]
Hace 18 años, el telescopio Hubble fue lanzado al espacio por el Discovery… la NASA para celebrar este evento ha publicao 59 fotos de alta definición de galaxias que se están chocando en el universo… eso si, a una distancia de más de 400 millones años luz de la tierra.
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Conceptualized in 1946 and launched in 1990, the Hubble telescope orbits the Earth and sends pictures back that aren’t blurred by background light or the atmosphere.
The telescope was named after Edwin Hubble who made a great scientific breakthrough when he found that the universe was expanding.
Draw backs of Hubble telescope:
After the Hubble [...]
You're trying to log on to a Web site and it's not working. You try again and again. But persistence doesn't pay off. The site you want is inexplicably, frustratingly, out of reach.The other computer might just be turned off, but the causes could be more mysterious. At any given moment, a proportion of computer traffic ends up being routed into information black holes. These are situations where a path between two computers does exist, but messages – a request to visit a Web site, an outgoing e-mail – get lost along the way.A University of Washington system named Hubble looks for these black holes and maps them on a Web site, providing an ever-changing constellation of the Internet's weak points. The Hubble map is posted at hubble.cs.washington.edu/, where visitors can view a map of pr
The photo is captured by the Hubble Space Telescope way back in March 2005. It is an image of V838 Monocerotis star which lies near the edge of our Milky Way Galaxy. The same photo is overlaid with a familiar logo, an the fits in nicely!!! Actually, I think Internet Explorer logo can fit in too. It does look like a big 'e' as well.Source: Firefox Logo Spied In Deep Space
Beautiful Barred Spiral GalaxyBarred spirals differ from normal spiral galaxies in that the arms of the galaxy do not spiral all the way into the center, but are connected to the two ends of a straight bar of stars containing the nucleus at its center.Photo by: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage TeamHubble reveals previously unseen shocksThis new, detailed, Hubble image shows a planetary nebula in the making of a proto-planetary nebula. A dying star (hidden behind dust and gas in the centre of the nebula) has ejected massive amounts of gas.Photo by: NASA, ESA, Valentin BujarrabalVariable Stars in Distant Spiral GalaxyA NASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) view of the magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 4603, the most distant galaxy in which a special class of pulsating stars called Cepheid variable
The Hubble Space Telescope was fraught with problems following its placement in Earth orbit after its 1990 launch. Once the problems were resolved, the telescope began receiving some of the most striking space photographs ever captured. Located outside of the distorting lens of Earth's atmosphere, the Hubble can see deeper into space and record more clearly than any existing telescope. This video will take you on a tour of "outer space's greatest hits", thanks to this marvel of modern technology.-_Hubble_s_View_of_the_Universe.part3.rar.html-_Hubble_s_View_of_the_Universe.part4.rar.html-_Hubble_s_View_of_the_Universe.part5.rar.html-_Hubble_s_View_of_the_Universe.part1.rar.html-_Hubble_s_View_of_the_Universe.part2.rar.html
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The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a telescope in orbit around the Earth, named after astronomer Edwin Hubble. Its position outside the Earth's atmosphere provides significant advantages over ground-based telescopes — images are not blurred by the atmosphere, there is no background from light scattered by air, and the Hubble can observe ultra-violet light that is normally absorbed by the ozone layer in observations made from Earth. Since its launch in 1990, it has become one of the most important instruments in the history of astronomy.Make your very own hand-held Hubble telescope model. There are three levels of difficulties. The easiest is the PVC model which will require PVC pipes. The second is a paper model with 3o pieces of parts. Last but not the least is an expert papermodel with 300 pieces of parts that will require 30 hours to build. You have the option of also assembling the internal structure of the telescope, including the mirror and the instrument bay, which fits ins
Trust me I do not have any extra ordinary interest in galaxies and pictures taken through space telescopes but often one finds things that are worth mentioning to the masses. The thing to wonder is that what is so interesting about the galaxy picture you see above?
The Sharpest Galaxy Image Ever Taken
The picture you see above is rescaled and resized version of the sharpest image ever taken of the large “grand design” spiral galaxy M81. The actual size of the original picture that was taken through the Hubble Space Telescope is no less than 700 MB alone (almost 1 GB wow!). The image was released on 9 June 2007 at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The Hubble Telescope and The Spiral Galaxy
Thanks to the sharp view of the Hubble Space Telescope it was successful enough to resolve individual stars, along with open star clusters, globular star clusters, and even glowing regions of fluorescent gas of the galaxy that is located 11.6 million light-yea
I was just listening to a streaming NPR story about the Hubble and evidently it had a serious electrical short circuit that blew a fuse and shut down the three main cameras. The Hubble has 2 identical electrical systems and it was already running on the secondary electrical system as there had been problems with the primary avionics electrical system last summer. They are working on it and are fairly secure in the knowledge that they can repair it. One huge plus I learned was that NASA has decided to do another maintenance mission via Shuttle and they have 2 new cameras they plan on installing during that mission. It is tentatively scheduled to take place in 20 months. I also learned that we have already done 4 maintenance missions to Hubble. The person being interviewed was NASA's Michael Weiss Deputy Director of the Hubble Space Telescope. Over the last few months I have said numerous times how shortsighted I thought it was to not be planning anymore updates or even maintenance mis
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κατασκευάζεται και από τις φωτογραφίες και μόνο μπορείς να καταλάβεις ότι πάνε να φτιάξουν ένα τηλεσκόπιο που θα βγάζει ακτινογραφίες σε εξωγήινους, 800 εκατ. έτη φωτός μακρυά. Ονομάζεται The James Webb Space Telescope και θα πρωτολειτουργήσει το 2013. Ο κεντρικός του καθρέπτης θα έχει 6 μέτρα διάμετρο αλλά παρόλα αυτά θα είναι πανάλαφρο.
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Hubble Space Telescope has just discovered a gigantic, ghostly ring of dark matter at a distance of 5 billion light-years from Earth. So far, it's the most compelling evidence of the existence of the elusive dark matter.Scientists have theorized on the existence of dark matter for some time, and they think it's a cosmic phenomenon that does not emit or reflect enough electromagnetic radiation to be observed directly, but who...read more....
Nasa unveils Hubble's successor - BBC NewsExcerpt:"The US space agency Nasa has unveiled a model of a space telescope that scientists say will be able to see to the farthest reaches of the Universe."http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/6645179.stmAlex
Google’s entered the moving and storage business. No, not PODS, but the technological equivalent - they’re helping Hubble researchers transfer 120 terabytes of data and offering storage...
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Google Earth junkies! Leave the planet with Celestia! Are you one of those people that played for two hours with Google Earth when you first got it? I know I did. Celestia is very much like that.See a few quotes from the Celestia web site below. But first, let me tell you that it's an Open Source program! It will run on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit.Celestia is expandable. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that's not enough, yo
El telescopio espacial 'Hubble' ha detectado metano en un planeta gaseoso del tamaño de Júpiter situado en la constelación de Vulpecula (La zorra). Este gas desempeña un papel clave en la química prebiótica -la necesaria para que surja la vida como la conocemos- y, aunque existe en otros cuerpos del ...
