Tag: Hubble
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NASA’s Mission Lucy to explore how the Solar System was born.
This week’s post is devoted to this interesting new mission, after we’ve just enjoyed the last supermoon of 2020. Lucy will be the first…
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Space News (April 2020)
In these difficult times, the space sector tends to attract less attention it used to (and rightly so); but looking at the stars and…
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Welcome back, Hubble!
Worries about Hubble’s operations have troubled the last month or so, at least since Friday, October 5, 2018, when the telescope was put into safe…
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Best 2018 Pictures from Space
In the past, I’ve often featured a few amazing snapshots taken from Hubble, Chandra and the various space probes on this blog. It has…
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(Awesome) videos about space
I have recently come across some amazing videos – and here they are! Definitively worth watching. The first is a “visualization explores the Orion…
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Hubble’s videos – learn to watch
What Hubble Space Telescope is, everybody knows – it’s the first major optical telescope to be placed in space, back in 1990. As explained…
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Space Features of the Week (20 January)
Here my periodic summary of some of the space news worth discussing this week. As usual, I have provided a link and included my comments,…
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Space Features of the Week (11 December)
The usual summary of some of the space news worth discussing this week. I have provided a link and included my comments, so that you…
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The Great Red Spot makes the news (again)
If there is a famous image for Jupiter, it’s for sure the one of its Great Read Spot, which is a giant, spinning, fast travelling…
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The once and future Hubble – 25 years in space, and counting
It’s impossible not to celebrate these days the incredible achievements of Hubble’s Space Telescope – which has just turned 25. A joint ESA/NASA project, launched…