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ann1109 — Announcement

Hubblecast 45: Building a treasure trove of observations

21 April 2011: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is working on three of the most ambitious projects in its history just now. These multicycle treasury programs are using Hubble’s unique ability to observe across the spectrum from ultraviolet, through visible, to infrared light, to build up a library of data which will serve ...

ann1108 — Announcement

Hubble pinpoints source of mysterious outbursts

7 April 2011: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has joined forces with other telescopes to study the source of one of the most puzzling bursts of high-energy gamma rays and X-rays ever observed. More than a week after the burst was first spotted, high-energy radiation continues to brighten and fade. “We know of ...

ann1107 — Announcement

Greetings from Space to All Our Facebook Friends!

1 April 2011: The ESA Hubble Space Telescope Facebook page has just welcomed its 50 000th Facebook friend. This page brings Hubble Space Telescope fans the latest news from ESA, as NASA’s partner in this international project. As a thank-you message for their friendship, the image above, showing NGC 5882 in the constellation ...

ann1106 — Announcement

Feel the Universe at Your Fingertips

28 March 2011: Access a universe of knowledge about the Universe with three new free iPad apps from ESO’s education and Public Outreach Department (ePOD), available just in time for the iPad 2. Together with the European Space Agency (ESA), ePOD has launched the free ESA/Hubble Top 100 Images app, which brings users ...

ann1105 — Announcement

Young, but surprisingly grown-up

9 March 2011: “We have measured the distance to the most remote mature cluster of galaxies ever found,” says the lead author of the study, Raphael Gobat (CEA, Paris). “The surprising thing is that that when we look closely at this galaxy cluster it doesn’t look young — many of the galaxies have ...

ann1104 — Announcement

What has Hubble told us about black holes?

28 February 2011: One of Hubble’s mission objectives at launch was to study black holes, and to test the theory that supermassive black holes lurk in the centres of many galaxies. Two decades later, Hubble has helped solve that mystery — and in the process, asked new questions that have astronomers scratching their ...

ann1103 — Announcement

New Hubble TV series: Mission Universum

28 January 2011: Our very own Hubblecast host, Dr J, aka Dr Joe Liske, will be starring in the new German-language TV series Hubble: Mission Universum starting this Saturday (29 January) at 19.35 CET. The programme will be broadcast on the Austrian satellite/cable channel, Servus TV, which is available in a number of ...

ann1102 — Announcement

Hubblecast Episode 42: Hubble's Greatest Hits

27 January 2011: What makes a scientific discovery really important? It’s partly down to how much scientists use the discovery in subsequent work — but it’s also partly down to what inspires their imagination. In this episode, the Hubblecast talks to some leading astronomers about their favourite Hubble discovery. Meanwhile, our presenter, Dr ...

ann1101 — Announcement

Final ST-ECF Newsletter released

12 January 2011: The final edition of the ST-ECF Newsletter has just been released. The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF) was a collaborative project between the European Space Agency and the European Southern Observatory and acted as the scientific and technical coordination centre for the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in Europe. Its ...

ann1016 — Announcement

Hubblecast Episode 41: Hubble's History Told by Hubble's Scientists

14 December 2010: Hubble’s history of scientific breakthroughs has made us think afresh about our Universe. But behind the astronomical successes is a rollercoaster ride of scientific and technical challenges going back decades. The Hubblecast caught up with some of the key players in Hubble’s history, including an astronaut, a Nobel Prize winner ...

ann1015 — Announcement

Hubblecast Episode 40: Wide Field Camera 3 — Hubble’s New Miracle Camera

29 October 2010: In early 2009 a team of astronauts visited Hubble and, as part of their mission, installed a new camera: the WFC3. As well as providing scientists with higher resolution observations than ever before, the pictures provided by WFC3 are among Hubble’s prettiest yet. This episode of the Hubblecast looks at ...

ann1014 — Announcement

World’s Astronomers Converge on Venice

4 October 2010: Astronomers from around the world are gathering for the third Science with the Hubble Space Telescope conference (HST3), which takes place in Venice from 11–14 October. They will be celebrating 20 years of cutting-edge science with the world’s most famous orbiting observatory, and looking forward to new research opportunities in ...

ann1013 — Announcement

ESA/ESO/NASA FITS Liberator Version 3 Released

1 October 2010: Today, the third — and best — version of the popular ESA/ESO/NASA FITS Liberator image-processing software has been released with several significant improvements. As with the previous versions of the FITS Liberator, the new version makes another leap towards making the creation of colour images from raw astronomical observations easier ...

ann1012 — Announcement

Hubblecast 39: The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS)

27 September 2010: Today’s telescopes study the sky across the electromagnetic spectrum. Each part of the spectrum tells us different things about the Universe, giving us more pieces of the cosmic jigsaw puzzle. The most powerful telescopes on the ground and in space have joined forces over the last decade in a unique ...

ann1011 — Announcement

Ancient Starlight Meets Space-age Technology

14 September 2010: The European Space Agency, NASA and the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti present The Hubble Space Telescope: Twenty Years at the Frontier of Science, a month-long exhibition of photos and artefacts from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, in their beautiful ...

ann1010 — Announcement

Discover Hubble on Earth

1 September 2010: After 20 years of pointing its cameras into the depths of space, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is quite a star here on Earth too. Whether it is on a biceps tattoo or a piece of toast, in a fashion show, at a rock concert, or on the show Late ...

ann1009 — Announcement

Huge New Collection of Hubble Spectra Now Available

4 August 2010: Although the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is mostly famous for its spectacular pictures this is only a small part of its capability. It is also possible to use a prism to spread out the light from all the stars and remote galaxies seen in a Hubble image into their component ...

ann1008 — Announcement

Hubble Gives Clues about Saturn’s “Irregular Heartbeat”

4 August 2010: A European-led team has used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to make a startling discovery about Saturn, the Solar System’s second largest planet [1]. The astronomers discovered that Saturn’s aurora, an ethereal ultraviolet glow that illuminates its upper atmosphere near the poles, dances in time to the beat of a ...

ann1007 — Announcement

Deadline Extended: Hubble Pop Culture Contest Continues

30 June 2010: We are still celebrating Hubble’s 20th anniversary! Are you? Show us what traces of Hubble’s influence you have found in pop culture. For the past 20 years the Hubble Space Telescope has brought you the most breathtaking images of the Universe. Now it’s your turn to look for astonishing examples ...

ann1006 — Announcement

Hubblecast 37: Bubbles and baby stars

22 June 2010: This Hubblecast features a spectacular new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image — one of the largest ever released of a star-forming region. It highlights N11, part of a complex network of gas clouds and star clusters within our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. This region of energetic star formation ...

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