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Astronaut Scholarship Foundation commemorates Hubble’s first 25 years
Members of STS-61, the first mission sent to repair the Hubble Space Telescope look up at an image captured by a revamp and empowered observatory. Photo Credit: Mark Usciak / SpaceFlight Insider COCOA...
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Waiting for scientific breakthroughs: an interview with JWST project...
The first six flight-ready segments of the James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror are prepped to begin final cryogenic testing at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Photo...
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NASA’s chief ‘Hubble-Hugger’ announces retirement from agency
Grunsfeld has announced that he will retire from NASA on April 30, 2016. Photo Credit: STS-125 / NASA At the end of this month, on April 30, NASA will lose one of the space agency’s most experienced...
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Hubble detects small moon orbiting dwarf planet Makemake
An artist’s depiction of dwarf planet Makemake with its newly discovered moon. (Click to enlarge) Image Credit: NASA Dwarf planet Makemake, the second brightest object in the Kuiper Belt, is orbited...
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NASA: Europa may have plumes of water being jettisoned into space
A team of scientists and NASA officials announced on Monday, Sept. 26, possible water geysers may have been discovered on Jupiter’s moon Europa. Image Credit: NASA NASA announced on Monday, Sept. 26, a...
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Hubble spots giant ‘cannonballs’ shooting from star
Artist’s rendition of binary-star system V Hydrae launching balls of plasma into space as detected by Hubble. (Click for full view) Image Credit: NASA / ESA / A. Feild (STScI) NASA’s Hubble Space...
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Trump space advisors considering Hubble servicing mission
A possible servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, one which would use Sierra Nevada Corporation Dream Chaser space plane has been suggested. Image Credit: Nathan Koga / SpaceFlight Insider...
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‘Warm Neptune’ HAT-P-26b has primitive atmosphere
The atmosphere of the distant “warm Neptune” HAT-P-26b, illustrated here, is unexpectedly primitive, composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. By combining observations from NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer...
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Third largest dwarf planet found to have moon
These two images, taken a year apart, reveal a moon orbiting the dwarf planet 2007 OR10. Each image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3, shows the companion in a different...
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Hubble spots exoplanet with glowing water atmosphere
This artist’s concept shows hot Jupiter WASP-121b, which presents the best evidence yet of a stratosphere on an exoplanet. Image & Caption Credit: Engine House VFX, At-Bristol Science Centre,...
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NASA video simulation takes viewers on a journey through the Orion Nebula
This image showcases both the visible and infrared visualizations of the Orion Nebula. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, F. Summers, G. Bacon, Z. Levay, J. DePasquale, L. Frattare, M. Robberto and M. Gennaro of...
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Hubble spots farthest star ever seen
Icarus, whose official name is MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1, is the farthest individual star ever seen. It is only visible because it is being magnified by the gravity of a massive galaxy cluster,...
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Increase in ‘Oumuamua’s speed through the solar system reveals it to be a comet
This illustration shows ‘Oumuamua racing toward the outskirts of our solar system. As the complex rotation of the object makes it difficult to determine the exact shape, there are many models of what...
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Has NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope detected first exomoon?
Kepler-1625b-i is the first exomoon candidate. If it is verified to be the first moon discovered outside of our Solar System. Image Credit: NASA/ESA/L. Hustak Two scientists have found evidence that an...
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Hubble enters safe mode after encountering gyroscope problem
The Hubble Space Telescope as seen by the departing STS-125 crew after a week servicing the observatory in 2009. Photo Credit: NASA NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope hasn’t had a tune up in almost 10 years...
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Backup Hubble gyroscope encounters anomaly during recovery efforts
The Hubble Space Telescope as seen by the departing STS-125 crew after a week servicing the observatory in 2009. Photo Credit: NASA It has been a little more than two weeks since the Hubble Space...
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Chandra X-Ray Observatory back in service after anomaly
NASA image of the Chandra X-Ray Telescope in space With the potential loss of two of the Great Observatories, NASA and the teams working on the space-based telescopes have demonstrated their resilience...
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Hubble: You can’t keep a good telescope down – for long
The Hubble Space Telescope as seen by the crew of Atlantis on STS-125 in April of 2009. Photo Credit: NASA In 1990 the Hubble Space Telescope began its mission after being deployed by Shuttle Discovery...
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Hubble camera shut down following anomaly
The Hubble Space Telescope as seen in Earth orbit. Photo Credit: NASA Operations of Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have been suspended following an anomaly, the space...
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