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The Hubble constant, a set number that connects a galaxy’s speed to its distance from Earth and tells us how fast the ...
A dam Riess was 27 years old when he began the work that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics, and just 41 when he received ...
The most undervalued industry in the world is the space industry. It is particularly unappreciated in Europe, which has now ...
This image shows the bright galaxy NGC 1015, 118 million light-years away, with its spiral arms and glowing centre looking like a spinning firework in the sky. This image shows galaxy NGC 1316, where ...
This deep-field observation reveals not only the cluster's own grandeur but also a stunning array of distant, faint galaxies from the Universe's earliest epochs.
Rather than abandon the Hubble, NASA fixed the problem. The first servicing mission, undertaken by the space shuttle Endeavour in December 1993, carried out several repairs and enhancements.
After the Hubble reached orbit in 1990, it suffered blurry vision because its mirror had been ground to a slightly wrong shape. Astronauts fixed that problem during a space shuttle mission in 1993.
Hubble had only the unknown ... "They said, 'We want this telescope fixed.'" "Reading the newspaper this morning, I was reminded of my thesis advisor's perspective," Neil Rowlands, an engineering ...
Even after Hubble’s eyesight was fixed, NASA continued to dispatch astronauts to upgrade the science instruments, patch up any broken components, and even boost the observatory higher into space ...
Nasa's Hubble Telescope is working again, after a glitch caused it to drop offline. The Hubble telescope is one of Nasa's most famous and important telescopes. It was launched in 1990, and since ...
They may not be the brightly-coloured glimpses into space we are used to, but these new Hubble images are priceless. They are the first observations since normal science observations were restarted on ...