Hubble Celebrates Supernova's 20th Anniversary
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Twenty years ago, astronomers witnessed one of the brightest stellar explosions in more than 400 years. The titanic supernova, called SN 1987A, blazed with the power of 100 million suns for several months following its discovery on Feb.
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Detailed, real-time data Scientists have, for the first time, been able to watch a star go supernova in real time, thanks to NASA's Swift satellite.â¦
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4 Feb marks 'Across The Universe Day' NASA will on 4 February beam Beatles' ditty Across the Universe into deep space to mark the 40th anniversary of the day the Fab Four recorded the song, as well as the launch 50 years ago this week of Explorer 1 and the 45th birthday of its Deep Space Network (DSN).â¦
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Edge on view of the rings Hubble has snapped a gorgeous shot of the rings of Uranus*.â¦
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Astronomers have produced the first truly useful image ever of something in space using gamma rays. It's a picture only an astronomer could love, but it appears to help solve a century-long mystery.
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&quot;It&#39;s like finding a living fossil in your own back yard,&quot; said Tim Heckman of Johns Hopkins. &quot;We thought this type of galaxy had gone extinct, but in fact newborn galaxies are alive and well in the universe.
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Several hundred images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have been woven together into a rich tapestry of at least 50,000 galaxies.
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Hubble space technology and the global networking power of the Internet is being put to good use in wildlife conservation by giving researchers a clearer understanding of the status of the endangered whale shark.
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By Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Jan. 31--The Advanced Camera for Surveys, the workhorse main camera aboard the Hubble Space Telescope since it was first installed in March 2002, might have taken its last breath-taking photograph that has brought humankind to new vistas of outer space.
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By James Fuller  jfuller@@dailyherald.com  New signs at the proposed Hubble Middle School site in Warrenville last week advertised the potential arrival of the new building.  By the weekend, two of the signs advertised a big, blue paint smear and a vulgarity.
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NASA&#39;s Galaxy Evolution Explorer has discovered larger and younger than expected galaxies. The NASA craft found three dozen galaxies emitting ultraviolet light at levels that would indicate supernovas are still exploding.
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The Hubble Space Telescope, arguably one of the greatest achievements of the space program, needs to be rescued. And astronauts should be sent to do the job.
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A brand new image taken with Hubbleâs Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 shows the planetary nebula NGC 2440 - the chaotic structure of the demise of a star.This image, just taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the colourful âlast hurrahâ of a star like our Sun.
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A team of astronomers from the US and the UK obtain some of the clearest pictures of space ever taken.
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True Identity of a Dwarf Galaxy RevealedNew data obtained on the apparent celestial couple, NGC 5011 B and C, taken with the 3.6-m ESO telescope, reveal that the two galaxies are not at the same distance, as was believed for the past 23 years.
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The transmission of the Fab Four's 'Across the Universe' to the North Star marks the US space agency's 50th anniversary.
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neutron_p writes &quot;An international team of astronomers has produced the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays, helping to solve a 100 year old mystery - an origin of cosmic rays.