update0826
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Hubblecast 25 Special: Whats Next?
15-Dec-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 ... [more]
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update0825
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Hubblecast 24 Special: Beyond Earth
11-Dec-2008: In this new Hubblecast Special episode, Dr. J guides us through the sixth chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's movie celebrating the telescope's 400th anniversary in 20... [more]
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update0824
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New launch date for Servicing Mission
05-Dec-2008: NASA officials announced Thursday that Shuttle mission STS-125 to repair the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is now scheduled for launch on 12 May 2009. The delay to the mission, from the original lau... [more]
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update0823
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Hubblecast 23 Special: Seeing the invisible
25-Nov-2008: In this new Hubblecast Special episode, Dr. J guides us through the fifth chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's movie celebrating the telescope's 400th anniversary in 20... [more]
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update0822
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Hubblecast 21 Special: From silver to silicon
03-Nov-2008: In this new Hubblecast Special episode , Dr. J guides us through the fourth chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's movie celebrating the telescope's 400th anniversary in ... [more]
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update0821
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Latest plans for Hubble Servicing Mission 4
31-Oct-2008: NASA officials announced 30 October 2008 that the planned Hubble Servicing Mission 4, originally scheduled for late September, will at the earliest take place in May 2009. The decison comes after engi... [more]
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update0820
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Hubble resumes science operations
27-Oct-2008: Science operations with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope resumed over the weekend, four weeks after a problem with the science data formatter took the spacecraft into safe mode. Reactivation of the... [more]
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update0819
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Green light for Hubble operations
24-Oct-2008: Following a week of thorough investigations as a result of two anomalies observed last week, NASA, on 23 October 2008, approved the resumption of activities to bring the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescop... [more]
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update0818
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Hubble status report
22-Oct-2008: Engineers at NASA continue to investigate the two anomalies which occurred during the reactivation of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope last week. Currently the focus is on assessing the ongoing ris... [more]
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update0817
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System anomalies take Hubble off line
18-Oct-2008: The process of restoring the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to operational status was temporarily put on hold due to a couple of anomalies observed on the spacecraft during reconfiguration. The first... [more]
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update0816
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Hubble instruments back online
17-Oct-2008: Engineers at ground control spent yesterday, 16 October, activating in a planned sequence the instruments onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The three primary instruments, the Advanced Camer... [more]
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update0815
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Bringing Hubble out of safe mode
16-Oct-2008: The process of restoring the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to full science operations is proceeding smoothly according to ground control teams. By about 15:30 CEST on 15 October, the control command... [more]
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update0814
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Restoring Hubble to health
15-Oct-2008: At a teleconference on 14 October 2008, NASA officials revealed the timeline for restoring the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to operational status following its entry into safe mode three weeks ago.... [more]
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update0813
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Hubble enters safe mode
01-Oct-2008: At approximately 02:00 (CEST) on Sunday September 28, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope automatically entered safe mode when errors were detected in the Control Unit/Science Data Formatter-Side A. T... [more]
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update0812
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Hubblecast 20 Special: Technology to the rescue
25-Sep-2008: In this new Hubblecast Special episode, Dr. J guides us through the third chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's official movie celebrating the telescope's 400th anniver... [more]
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update0811
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Mystery object spied with Hubble
16-Sep-2008: Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed a mystery object in the constellation of Böotes. Despite detailed analysis of the light emitted by the object, astronomers are puzz... [more]
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update0810
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Hubblecast19 Special: Bigger is better
03-Sep-2008: In this new Hubblecast Special episode , Dr. J guides us through the second chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's official movie celebrating the telescope's 400th annive... [more]
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update0809
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Hubblecast17 Special: New views of the skies
25-Jul-2008: In this new Hubblecast episode , Dr. J guides us through the first chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's official movie celebrating the telescope on its 400th anniversar... [more]
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update0808
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Hubble sees stars and a stripe in celestial fireworks
01-Jul-2008: A delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy. A contrail from an alien spaceship A jet from a black hole? Actually this image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is a very thin sect... [more]
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update0807
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Proceedings of Communicating Astronomy with the Public 2007
26-May-2008: The conference Communicating Astronomy with the Public 2007 was held in Athens, Greece, from 8 to 11 October 2007. It aimed to bring together the producers of astronomical information (research scient... [more]
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update0806
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The Communicating Astronomy with the Public Journal #3 is out!
26-May-2008: In this edition the contributions cover the full spectrum of astronomy communication from forefront technology to the fine art of communicating controversy. Three of the topics discussed in this issue... [more]
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update0805
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ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator v. 2.2 released
25-Mar-2008: Today, an updated version of the popular software has been released with, among other features, native support for Intel-based Macs. Another key update is a much improved support for embedding of des... [more]
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update0804
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Hubblecast HD awarded "Top 25 new 2007 vodcasts" status by iTunes
07-Mar-2008: Less than one year after its launch, the Hubblecast HD video podcast (vodcast) series has become a tremendous success. It has just been awarded a position among the best new 25 video podcasts in 2007 ... [more]
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update0803
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ESA/Hubble and NBI Cast
25-Feb-2008: ESA/Hubble has started a collaboration with the University of Copenhagen's Niels Bohr Institute on the NBI Cast. The first collaboration has resulted in the episode "Our Cosmic Roots" about the most d... [more]
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update0802
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The Communicating Astronomy with the Public Journal #2 is out!
21-Feb-2008: In this issue we marvel at the breathtaking images taken by astrophotographers from The "World at Night project", get insider tips from authors of two popular astronomy vodcasts, learn how to navigate... [more]
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update0801
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Hubblecast 13: Gargantuan galaxy NGC 1132 - A "cosmic fossil"
06-Feb-2008: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the galaxy NGC 1132 which is, most likely, a cosmic fossil – the aftermath of an enormous multi-galactic pile-up, where the carnage of c... [more]
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