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• Book Review - Far Out - A Space-Time Chronicle

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 144
  Far Out - A Space-Time Chronicle by Michael Benson; Abrams Books; New York, New York; (Hard Cover) $55.00; 2009. This is a large-format book that literally sucks you in thanks to a fabulous collection of deep space images. The reader will surely feel like their own Hubble Space Telescope, peering into the pages that ...
  19 hours ago

• To the Galactic Center

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 144
  From NASA Where can a telescope take you? Four hundred years ago, a telescope took Galileo to the Moon to discover craters, to Saturn to discover rings, to Jupiter to discover moons, to Venus to discover phases, and to the Sun to discover spots. Today, in celebration of Galileos telescopic achievements and as part of ...
  3 days ago

• Hub of beauty

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 701
  When Galileo first turned his telescope to the sky, almost exactly 400 years ago, he could not possibly have known what he was starting. Today, four centuries later, we’ve come a long, long way. To celebrate the anniversary of Galileo’s telescopic revolution, NASA’s Great Observatories — Hubble , Spitzer ...
  4 days ago

• Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth In M83, The Southern Pinwheel

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
  The spectacular new camera installed on NASAs Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 in May has delivered the most detailed view of star birth in the graceful, curving arms of the nearby spiral galaxy M83. Nicknamed the Southern Pinwheel, M83 is undergoing more rapid star formation than our own Milky Way ...
  6 days ago

• Hubble: Birthplace of Stars

  
  Little Green Footballs — Authority: 610
  A spectacular image from the Hubble Space Telescope’s newly-installed Wide Field Camera 3, showing a birthplace of stars in the nearby galaxy M83: Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth in M83, the Southern Pinwheel . (Hat tip: Phil Plait , who has interesting commentary on how this image was generated, and what ...
  1 week ago

• Lost in wonder

  
  Baptists Today Blogs — Authority: 118
  Ive been a space nut as long as I can remember. Trying to grasp even the smallest hint of the size and shape of the universe boggles the mind, but it is a good boggle. Sometimes, when a busy day my head gets bogged down (bogged is less pleasant than boggled), I do a brief mental stretch by checking out the most ...
  1 week ago

• Hubble and Spitzer Telescopes Help Study of Young Stellar Objects

  
  Astrocast.TV — Authority: 133
  Astronomers today often combine resources to better comprehend their objects of interest. In a paper to be published in the Astrophysical Journal, available online now here , astronomers combine imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope to search out and understand young stellar objects ...
  1 week ago

• Opening Up A Colorful Cosmic Jewel Box

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
  The combination of images taken by three exceptional telescopes, the ESO Very Large Telescope on Cerro Paranal, the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at ESOs La Silla observatory and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, has allowed the stunning Jewel Box star cluster to be seen in a whole new light.
  2 weeks ago

• Hubble Collects Jewels

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 144
  From Wired.com This stunning image of the Kappis Crucis Cluster, nicknamed the "Jewel Box," was one of the last gifts from a retiring camera on the Hubble Space Telescope. Just before NASA brought the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 back to Earth in mid-2009, it snapped this photo of the core of the NGC 4755 star ...
  2 weeks ago

• Unlocking the Jewel Box

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 701
  Need some pretty for today? Then you should feast your eyes on this exquisite picture of the cluster of stars known as the Jewel Box: [Click to encaret]. Gee, I can’t imagine why’d they name it the Jewel Box! In fact, this is a large cluster of stars located in the southern constellation of Crux, also ...
  2 weeks ago

• Can supercomputers unravel universe’s secrets?

  
  Invest In India — Authority: 131
  Scientists are using the world’s fastest supercomputer to model origins of the unseen universe including dark energy. Understanding dark energy is the number one issue in explaining the universe, according to Salman Habib of the Laboratory’s Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology Group. Even ...
  2 weeks ago

• World’s fastest supercomputer to reveal secrets of ‘unseen’ universe

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Washington, October 27 (ANI): Scientists are using the world’s fastest supercomputer to model origins of the unseen universe, namely, dark energy.Understanding dark energy is the number one issue in explaining the universe, according to Salman Habib, of the Laboratory’s Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astrophysics ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is The Hubble Telescope Making Our Lives Meaningless?

  
  Image-Acquire.com — Authority: 587
  Related Posts James Webb Space Telescope For NASA Hubble Takes Impressive Jupiter Picture Next IMax Movie–The Hubble…in 3-D Planck Space Telescope Starts Returning Images Tags: astronomical phenomena , astronomy , Hubble , hubble space telescope , hubble telescope , life-srhinkers ...
  3 weeks ago

• Basic Biological Molecules Found on Alien World

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 144
  From Universe Today The basic chemistry for life has been detected the atmosphere of a second hot gas planet, HD 209458b. Data from the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes provided spectral observations that revealed molecules of carbon dioxide, methane and water vapor in the planets atmosphere. The Jupiter-sized ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rodger Doxsey, Astronomer Who Worked on the Hubble, Dies at 62

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 911
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  3 weeks ago

• Forgotten Planet

  
  Discovery Space: Cosmic Ray — Authority: 410
  There’s another dwarf planet to add to the list of solarsystem bodies that   share minorleague status with Pluto. Newly published Hubble Space Telescope pictures show thatthe large asteroid Pallas is nearly spherical. In other words the body has enoughgravity to pull itself into ball where all surface features ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pictures From Space–Two Black Holes Joining

  
  Image-Acquire.com — Authority: 587
  Related Posts Pictures From Space–The Hydra A Galaxy Pictures From Space–Economies As Seen From Space Pictures From Space–The World in Junk Pictures From Space–The Giant Space Dragon Tags: black holes , Chandra X-Ray Observatory , hubble space telescope , Pictures from space ...
  4 weeks ago

• Hubble Shows Us A Beautiful Collision

  
  Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science — Authority: 133
  NGC 2623 or Arp 243. (Image Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Evans (Stony Brook University, New York)). This image from the Hubble Space Telescope looks like a two-armed galaxy.  Instead, what is actually captured in this image are two spiral galaxies in a high-speed collision 250 million light-years away.  This double ...
  4 weeks ago

• NASA’s moon-smashing mission may have been doomed from the start

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  London, October 16 (ANI): Reports indicate that the NASA’s LCROSS moon-smashing mission might have been doomed from the beginning, as some scientists involved with the mission were predicting very little, if anything, would be seen from the impact, despite a well publicized observing campaign.According to a report ...
  4 weeks ago

• TDRS-1 communications satellite, RIP

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 143
  Well, technically it isn’t dead — and to get real technical about it, it never was actually alive — but the TDRS-1 communications satellite is being decommissioned after 26 years of circling the Earth working for NASA, scientists, the military and intelligence. From the link: Although it was never ...
  4 weeks ago

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