Tag Archives: Hubble Space Telescope

Death Star Galaxy

Posted on May 18, 2009 | Comments Off on Death Star Galaxy

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The ole Hubble has imaged a lot of strange beasts since it was launched nineteen years ago. This is one of the strangest, part of a slide show collection at The Daily Beast and explained there.

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Shuttle mission

Posted on May 16, 2009 | Comments Off on Shuttle mission

Watch the STS 125 Atlantis astronauts make the final visit to the Hubble Space Telescope live on NASA TV. It’s hard to overstate the beauty and scientific value of the Hubble’s nineteen years of discoveries.

Enjoy it while you can. As the Seablogger puts it "The remaining shuttles are soon to be retired, and no replacement is likely. I suspect much of the space program will be terminated as health care and other costs overwhelm the federal budget." That does seem likely, and that Barry will be content to grovel in the mud.

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Today’s pretty picture

Posted on January 2, 2009 | Comments Off on Today’s pretty picture

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Starting the year off right, with a starburst that began twenty-five million years ago, a mere eleven million light years away. A weekend trip into the black, when we get star travel worked out. Heh.

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Hubble snaps a planet

Posted on November 14, 2008 | Comments Off on Hubble snaps a planet

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The Hubble Space Telescope has made the first visible-light snapshot of a planet orbiting another star: Fomalhaut b circles the bright southern star Fomalhaut, just twenty-five light-years away in the constellation Piscis Australis, the "Southern Fish."

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Jewel Box

Posted on August 8, 2008 | Comments Off on Jewel Box

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Open Cluster NGC 290, a mere two hundred thousand light years away, in a recent snapshot by the Hubble Space Telescope, itself the subject of a new book. 

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Today’s pretty picture

Posted on March 15, 2008 | Comments Off on Today’s pretty picture

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The Sombrero Galaxy, a mere 28 million light years away, via the Hubble Space Telescope. Another weekend jaunt in the making, someday, when warp drive is perfected. 

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Today’s pretty picture

Posted on February 23, 2008 | Comments Off on Today’s pretty picture

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Ring of Dark Matter: You know, that unexplained stuff astrophysicists believe fills the gaps in the whole universe. Discovery by the Hubble Space Telescope in May, 2007, of this ghostly ring, formed long ago from the collision of two galaxy clusters, was the best evidence yet that dark matter actually exists.

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