Radical Antarctic telescope &quot;would outdo Hubble&quot;
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Tests by a team from the University of New South Wales, reported in the journal âNatureâ this week [16 September], show that the âDome Câ site in the Australian Antarctic Territory is by far the best place ever tested on Earth for doing infrared
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Last week's news that the orbiting Hubble  observatory's most productive and far-seeing camera may be irreparably damaged sent a chill through the world of astronomy. Even if astronauts return to the Hubble next year as planned to repair and replace several instruments, fixing the electrical malfunction in the Advanced Camera for Surveys is not expected to be on the schedule....
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One of the world's most powerful telescopes will begin spying on the universe on Friday, using its 34-foot wide mirror to search for planets similar to our own from a mountaintop on one of Spain's Canary Islands.
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-- NASA's chief is urging his Hubble Space Telescope team to press ahead with plans for a robotic repair mission to the aging observatory, saying, "Let's go save the Hubble."    Administrator Sean O'Keefe says he will ask Congress for money to accomplish the job. He estimates it will take about $1 billion to $1.6 billion to develop and launch a robot to make the needed upgrades to keep the popular telescope running and to get it out of orbit once its work is through...
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In this detailed view from NASA&#39;s Hubble Space Telescope, the so-called Cat&#39;s Eye Nebula looks like the penetrating eye of the disembodied sorcerer Sauron from the film adaptation of &quot;The Lord of the Rings.
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Astronomers have produced some amazing pictures using a remarkable new instrument on the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope in Hawaii.
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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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Support is growing for a human mission to be sent to repair the Hubble space telescope instead of robots.
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PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Astronomers will present new findings from NASA&#39;s Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope at a listen-and-logon news briefing, Thursday at 10 am Pacific time (1 pm Eastern time).
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WASHINGTON - NASA should turn to astronauts, not robots, to repair the aging Hubble Space Telescope, an expert panel recommended on Wednesday.
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PHOENIX -- A troubled, 20-year journey to create the world&#39;s most powerful optical telescope is nearing an end, with astronomers hoping to begin using the instrument to look for heavenly breakthroughs early next year.
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_ Astronomers say a new camera atop Mauna Kea will be able to capture images 36-hundred times larger that those taken by the camera on the Hubble Space Telescope.
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The nation&#39;s most prominent science advisers Wednesday urged NASA to send shuttle astronauts instead of robots on a repair mission to the aging Hubble telescope because humans have a substantially greater chance of fixing it.
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NASA has a few options when it comes to the future of the Hubble Space Telescope: It could perform another maintenance mission with a risk to astronauts, build a costly robotic
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A report from National Academy of  Sciences released today recommends that NASA scrap plans to service the Hubble  Space Telescope (HST) robotically and instead use a space shuttle to get the job  done as originally planned.
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One of the world's largest optical telescopes will peer into space for the first time on Friday.
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The US space agency Nasa announces details of a mission to give the Hubble space telescope a major boost.