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ann1005 — Announcement

Join in the Hubble Pop Culture Contest!

23 April 2010: In honour of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s 20th anniversary, the European Space Agency (ESA) is proud to present the ESA “Hubble Pop Culture” competition — a free competition that calls for everyone who loves Hubble to find examples of it in popular culture. Have you seen a Hubble image ...
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ann1004 — Announcement

Hubble’s European website gets a facelift!

23 April 2010: In honour of Hubble’s 20th anniversary, the European online home for Hubble is being revamped. The streamlined and contemporary new look will highlight amazing Hubble images and videos while still maintaining the convenient and easy-to-use features of the previous site. The new site will also include brand-new elements including Hubble ...
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ann1003 — Announcement

Media advisory: Brand-new Hubble 20th anniversary image to be revealed this Friday

21 April 2010: The European Space Agency (ESA) in conjunction with American partners NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) will release a gorgeous new Hubble image that celebrates the venerable observatory’s 20th year in orbit. The Hubble anniversary images and videos will be posted on the revamped http://www.spacetelescope.org web site, the ...
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ann1002 — Announcement

Hubblecast 35: The stuff of legend

15 April 2010: Gearing up for the 20th anniversary of the legendary space observatory, Dr. J takes a look at the story of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Born of an ambitious idea, it took decades for Hubble to become a reality. The project was complex and often faced huge setbacks but, ultimately, ...
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ann1001 — Announcement

Hubble's 20th Anniversary brings special opportunity for European science centres and planetariums

5 March 2010: This April will mark 20 years in orbit for the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope! In honour of this incredible milestone, ESA, along with American partners NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) will offer a limited number of high-quality large Hubble prints to selected European science centres and planetariums. ...
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ann0914 — Announcement

Eyes on the Skies wins Special Jury Award at the 2009 MEDEA Awards

9 December 2009: The Eyes on the Skies project initiated as part of International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) celebration now entering its final weeks has won an international accolade. After originally being selected as one of eight finalists from a field of over 254 entries from 39 countries, the Eyes on the ...
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ann0913 — Announcement

Central star in Bug Nebula found

2 December 2009: An elusive, very hot star at the centre of one of the most well-known and spectacular planetary nebulae has been directly detected. Using the brand-new Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) in six narrow band filters, researchers from the European Southern Observatory, the University of Manchester and CSIC (Granada, Spain) have ...
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ann0912 — Announcement

Hubble celebrates International Year of Astronomy with new view of Milky Way

10 November 2009: A never-before-seen view of the turbulent heart of our Milky Way galaxy provided by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and its companion Great Observatories (the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory) is being unveiled on 10 Nov 2009. This event will commemorate the 400 years since Galileo first ...
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ann0911 — Announcement

ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator v. 2.3 released

30 October 2009: The release of version 2 of the popular ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator image processing software has meant that it is even easier and faster to create colour images using raw observations from a range of telescopes, including the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, ESO’s Very Large Telescope ...
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ann0910 — Announcement

Hubblecast 31: Sky merger yields sparkling dividends

13 October 2009: A bright and bizarre galaxy called NGC 2623 is the focus of this Hubblecast. The single galaxy is the product of the merger of two distinct galaxies. The union has spawned new star formation and activated one of the supermassive black holes found at the centres of the two original ...
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ann0909 — Announcement

Hubblecast 30: Rebirth of an icon

9 September 2009: After more than three months of calibration and testing, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is reopening its rejuvenated eyes to begin probing the Universe once again. Dr. J reveals the stunning new images and the fascinating science behind them.
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ann0908 — Announcement

Hubblecast 29: Mission Accomplished: Healing Hubble

22 June 2009: The fifth and final mission to the iconic Hubble Space Telescope was a long time coming. After a delay in the fall of 2008, spring brought new hope and, on 11 May, the seven Space Shuttle crew members headed for the mission of a lifetime.
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ann0907 — Announcement

Atlantis is on its way to Hubble

11 May 2009: In a bright, loud and visibly perfect launch, space shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Kennedy Space Center at 2:01 p.m. EDT (20:01 CEST). The seven astronauts of STS-125 are headed for their rendezvous with Hubble Space Telescope. Over an 11-day mission, veteran astronauts Scott Altman, Gregory C. Johnson, John Grunsfeld ...
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ann0906 — Announcement

New Hubble image pays tribute to WFPC2

11 May 2009: The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. In tribute to Hubble's longest running optical camera, a planetary nebula has been imaged as WFPC2's final "pretty picture". This planetary nebula is known as Kohoutek 4-55 (or K 4-55). ...
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ann0905 — Announcement

Hubblecast 27: What has Hubble taught us about the planets?

9 April 2009: For nineteen years, NASA/ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has made some of the most dramatic discoveries in the history of astronomy but it has also helped scientists learn more about our own Solar System. From its vantage point 600 km above the Earth, Hubble has studied every planet in our Solar ...
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ann0904 — Announcement

Hubble celebrates the International Year of Astronomy 2009 with the galaxy triplet Arp 274

3 April 2009: In celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope photographed the winning target in the Space Telescope Science Institute's "You Decide" competition. The image of the winner, a group of interacting galaxies called Arp 274, was revealed during ESO's "Around the World in 80 Telescopes" ...
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ann0903 — Announcement

Hubble and ESO's VLT provide unique 3D views of remote galaxies

10 March 2009: NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope partnered with ESO's VLT to obtain exceptional 3D views of distant galaxies by probing the motions of gas in tiny objects, seen when the Universe was half its current age. By looking at this unique "history book" of our Universe, at an epoch when the Sun ...
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ann0902 — Announcement

"Eyes on the Skies" and "Hidden Universe" are Wiley-VCH bestsellers

4 March 2009: "Eyes on the Skies" and "Hidden Universe", two books produced in a unique collaboration between the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the European Southern Observatory, the European Space Agency and the international publisher Wiley-VCH, have just been announced as 2008 bestsellers. The publisher's second ranking bestseller is "Eyes on the Skies", ...
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ann0901 — Announcement

Hubble snaps images of a nebula within a cluster

16 January 2009: The unique planetary nebula NGC 2818 is nested inside the open star cluster NGC 2818A. Both the cluster and the nebula reside over 10 000 light-years away, in the southern constellation Pyxis (the Compass). NGC 2818 is one of very few planetary nebulae in our galaxy located within an open ...
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ann0826 — Announcement

Hubblecast 25 Special: What’s Next?

15 December 2008: In this new Hubblecast Special episode, Dr. J guides us through the seventh chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's movie celebrating the telescope's 400th anniversary in 2009.The Eyes on the Skies movie explores the many facets of the telescope — the historical development, the scientific importance, ...
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