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Hubble Repair Mission More Risky than You Would Ever Imagine [Space]

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2008-09-06 19:00:50 by Jesus Diaz in Gizmodo
...Hubble Space Telescope is going to be boring, you haven't seen this video yet. Not only the astronauts will be risking their lives as usual at 366 miles above the Earth, but the sheer amount and the difficulty of the tasksfrom repairing components to replacing them to installing new gadgetsmakes the mission an almost-impossible one, with...
 
Tags: hubble, mission, space, hubble space telescope, mission astronauts, time, short time, mission crew, instrument
 
 
 
 
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Hubble Telescope Communication Breaks Down, Plot Thickens [Space]

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2008-09-29 20:55:00 by Jesus Diaz in Gizmodo
...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. And while Nasa doesn't know what the heck has happenedI'm thinking a bunch of aliens angry with this galactic Peeping...
 
Tags: hubble, mission, upgrade mission, hubble repair, shuttle mission, systems, backup systems, images, data relay modules
 
 
 
 
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Hubble Finds Unidentified Object in Space, Scientists Puzzled [Hubble]

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2008-09-15 10:00:00 by Jesus Diaz in Gizmodo
...Hubble : in a paper published last week in the Astrophysical Journal, scientists detail the discovery of a new unidentified object in the middle of nowhere. I don't know about you, but when a research paper conclusion says "We suggest that the transient may be one of a new class" I get a chill of oooh-aaahness down my spine. Specially when...
 
Tags: hubble, supernova cosmology projectcan, object, supernova, billion light-years, service hubble, light-years, paper, research paper conclusion
 
 
 
 
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Hubble's 18th birthday party favors: 59 crisp new images of distant galaxies

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2008-04-24 15:19:46 by Kevin Hall in DVICE
...Hubble Space Telescope. It's the 18th anniversary of the Hubby's launch and, to celebrate it, NASA and the European Space Agency have released 59 new images of interacting galaxies. You may not have thought galaxies mingle very much, but they do they collide, merge with one another to form new galaxies, and trigger the formation of fresh...
 
Tags: hubble, galaxies, hubble space telescope, galaxies mingle, european space agency, happy birthday, astronomical history, time reaches, fresh stars
 
 
 
 
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NASA Preparing to Service Hubble for the Last Time, In Glorious Pictures [Nasa]

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2008-09-01 15:00:00 by Jack Loftus in Gizmodo
...Hubble Space Telescope. Atlantis is scheduled to launch on October 8, equipped with all manner of instruments, batteries and gyroscopes for Hubble. Pictured above is one of the massive Atlantis engines being moved to the main bay for installation. That's just one engine, thoughthere's plenty of space-related tech porn to be found in the rest...
 
Tags: hubble, high-fidelity hubble model, space shuttle atlantis, atlantis, massive atlantis engines, hubble space telescope, picture blog continues, picture, wide field camera
 
 
 
 
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LBT - Beats the hell out of the Hubble

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2008-03-11 09:28:20 by HASH0x8b2ece8 in Newlaunches.com
...Hubble space program. Ever wondered what happened to the good old optical telescopes? Huge telescopes already exist which operate in parts of the spectrum invisible to the human eye - from low-frequency radio waves beyond infrared to high-frequency gamma rays beyond ultraviolet - but no traditional optical telescope is more powerful than the...
 
Tags: telescope, binocular telescope, traditional optical telescope, lbt, hubble space telescope, telescopes, huge telescopes, 75ft telescope, spiral galaxy
 
 
 
 
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NASA Pics Celebrate Hubble's 18th Birthday, Space Telescope Still Can't Drink Beer [Hubble]

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2008-04-24 07:20:00 by Addy Dugdale in Gizmodo
...Hubble Telescope was launched into space by the Space Shuttle Discovery . To celebrate its coming of age, NASA has released 59 high-definition breathtaking pictures of galaxies colliding across the universe. Above is ESO 99-4, a weird-shaped galaxy (probably the result of another collision) situated in the Triangulum Australe, around...
 
Tags: space, space shuttle discovery, 400-million light, nasa, triangulum australe, hubble telescope, high-definition, eso, age
 
 
 
 
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Free telescope time on GRAS remote telescope (as powerful as Hubble)

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2008-08-04 14:00:00 by Wayne Schulz in Gear Diary
...Hubble-like remote imaging telescope that is located in Australia and create your own images Designed for ease of operation, even a child with little or no previous experience can take command of the controls of this ground-based remote astronomical telescope system. All GRAS remote telescope systems operate in a very similar concept to the...
 
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Firefox logo spotted in deep space by the Hubble Telescope

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2008-04-10 18:31:49 by HASH0x8c98800 in Newlaunches.com
Captured by the Hubble Space Telescope is an image of the variable star V838 Monocerotis which lies near the edge of our Milky Way Galaxy. The photo was taken way back in March 2004
 
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