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While you might not think that sharks and the Hubble Space Telescope have a lot in common, it turns out they share an incredible bond! https://youtu.be/fYjqq-jZ86M https://youtu.be/1j3nQv-LSOc

Hubble’s Region of Study During the Lunar Eclipse. Taking advantage of the total lunar eclipse of January 2019, astronomers, using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, have measured the amount of ozone in Earth’s atmosphere. The method used serves as a proxy for how they will observe Earth-like planets around other stars in search for worlds similar… Continue reading 145-Hubble Views Moon to Study Earth

To communicate with Hubble, the Space Telescope Operations Control Center uses NASA’s Space Network. Called the Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), this network includes a series of satellites in geosynchronous orbit and ground facilities that support and communicate with those satellites. Episode 3: Time Machines – Hubble has looked back billions of years in… Continue reading 146-Episode 3: Time Machines (Hubble – Eye in the Sky miniseries)

Episode 2: An Unexpected Journey – With five servicing missions, upgraded instruments, and new ways of operating, Hubble is not the same telescope it was when it launched. Discover the innovative ways astronomers and engineers use Hubble today. This series, "Hubble – Eye in the Sky," takes you behind the scenes into the world of… Continue reading 147-Episode 2: An Unexpected Journey (Hubble – Eye in the Sky miniseries)

Episode 1: Driving the Telescope – Visit Hubble’s control center to learn about the challenges and techniques of performing extraordinarily detailed observations with an orbiting space telescope. Tour the rarely seen, life-size simulator at NASA that helps engineers and operators investigate problems and test new solutions before implementing them on the real telescope in space.… Continue reading 148-Episode 1: Driving The Telescope (Hubble – Eye in the Sky miniseries)

Space Blanket-Inspired Cases Protect Expensive Devices. The thermal blanket that will protect the Integrated Science Instrument Model’s Electronics Compartment of the new James Webb Space Telescope. https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2016/cg_4.html A new video miniseries explores the intricate world of operating the Hubble Space Telescope. In Hubble – Eye in the Sky, viewers get an inside look at the… Continue reading 149-New Hubble Video Miniseries Goes Behind the Scenes of Our ‘Eye in the Sky’

Hubble with its second set of ESA-designed solar blankets. Hubble’s original solar wings were constructed by ESA. Thin and flexible in nature, they comprised two double roll-out solar array wings Each array stands on a 1.2-m mast that supports a retractable wing of solar panels 12.1-m long and 2.5-m wide in full extension, with buffer… Continue reading 150-Precision & Design: Making Blankets for Hubble

Hubble has seen galaxies at the edge of the visible universe. It has unlocked a cosmos so vast and filled with wonder that it boggles the mind. The Hubble Telescope has learned how galaxies merge, and found the powerful jets from massive black-holes. It has uncovered the “dark energy” behind universal expansion and mapped the… Continue reading 151-Intergalactic Elegance : Hubble’s Universe

30 years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope unlocked a window on the universe. Through that window we’ve seen the wonders of our Milky Way and expanded our vision across the galaxy. From the birth and death of stars to the baby pictures of planets, these are some of Hubble’s Milky Way marvels. https://youtu.be/Bb6O9Q3CDW0 https://youtu.be/1j3nQv-LSOc

Hubble's sharpest view of the Orion Nebula. Celebrating 30 years in orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed astonishing secrets about our universe. Yet, while its most famous pictures may reveal galaxies and nebulas across the cosmos, it’s also unlocked secrets here in our own solar system.   A visually striking collection of interstellar gas… Continue reading 153-Solar System Surprises : Hubble’s Universe

Serpens Nebula HBC 672. In 2017, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a huge wing-shaped shadow cast by a fledgling star’s unseen, planet-forming disk. The young star, called HBC 672, is casting the shadow across a more distant cloud in a star-forming region—like a fly wandering into the beam of a flashlight shining… Continue reading 154-Hubble Spots Giant Flapping Shadow

Just as cars need maintenance on Earth, sometimes spacecraft need fixing, too. 🛠️ When astronauts work on spacecraft in orbit, it's called space servicing. Want to know more about space servicing? Leave your questions in the comments below for a Q&A from 12-2 p.m. EDT on 5/14 with NASA astronauts and experts! 💡 Fun fact!… Continue reading 155-5 Things: Space Servicing