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Thirty Meter Telescope will see what the Hubble has left blurry

Bharat — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:07:33 +0000

Based on the ground itself, the Thirty Meter Telescope in the making will be lined in to produce the best images possible to revolutionize the study of the universe, adding a deeper level of understanding with the more detailed imagery. The...

Hubble to become 90% more powerful with 3rd-Gen wide-field camera

Arpita Mukherjee — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:41:28 +0000

In 1990, when the Hubble space telescope was launched in space, the orbiting telescope opened a new era of cosmic information. Since then, it has been an astounding source of information with its most splendid breathtaking pictures of inner...

Large Binocular Telescope: more powerful than Hubble

Arpita Mukherjee — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:26:40 +0000

After battling against a number of odds, the world’s largest telescope has finally been mounted on top of Mount Graham in southern Arizona. The $120 million dollar worth Large Binocular Telescope Observatory has already started catching images...

Hubble captures Jupiter changing its stripes

Anupam — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:28:03 +0000

According to a team of experts at NASA, Jupiter is changing its stripes, a process which can be due to the change of seasons on this giant planet. These dramatic changes are being captured by the aging Hubble Space Telescope. The changes are due...

Hubble shoots sexy-looking NGC 1672

Anupam — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:11:03 +0000

Astronomers have produced a sparkling picture of a spiral galaxy called NGC 1672. The galaxy is quite similar to our home galaxy, The Milky Way. NGC 1672 is 60 million light-years away from us in the southern constellation Dorado. NGC 1672...

Hubble captures a dying Star

Anupam — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:03:27 +0000

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has always provided us with some fascinating images of the Universe. This time the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 of the space telescope has captured the colorful demise of a Sun-Like star that is some 4,000...

Helix Nebula: Dust in the 'Eye of God'

Anupam — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:43:36 +0000

This spectacular image has been provided by NASA. The image shows clouds of gas and debris that make the nebula look like the eye of god. The Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope have both taken these glorious images of...

NASA getting Nervous about the Software of its James Webb Space Telescope

Anupam — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 05:44:04 +0000

NASA is developing the companion of its famous Space Telescope, Hubble. The new space telescope has been named after NASA’s Second top administrator James Webb who left NASA a year before the first successful landing on the moon. The James...

Rethinking Gravity: Modern technologies help predict Einstein's theory in different contexts

Irani — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:38:52 +0000

A galaxy of leading physicists and astrophysicists will convene in Tucson on Jan. 22 - 24, 2007. More than three dozen experts are expected to attain the conference — Rethinking Gravity: from the Planck scale to the size of the Universe -...

Hubble spots planet-forming 'Particle Blizzard' in a disk around a young star

Irani — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:17:25 +0000

Planets grow from tiny dust grains. This growing process of the planet is revealed by a recent observation by Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble has spotted Planet-Forming ‘Particle Blizzard’ in spotted a “blizzard” of...