NASA Unveils New Hubble Telescope Images

NASA's Hubble Telescope has been repaired and upgraded, and several new Hubble images were revealed on the NASA Hubble Space Telescope website today. Hubble was first launched 19 years ago, in April 1990. It was...

Space shuttle lands in California

" The space shuttle Atlantis has landed in California, where it was diverted after continuing stormy weather prevented a Florida touchdown. Atlantis landed at 1539 GMT at Edwards Air Force Base. Officials had...

Beauty of Universe, Up Above The Sky

Here is some of the awesome images from the unexplored beauty of Universe. Up above the sky like colors spread in the ocean of universe. Hubble Space Telescope have gifted us much images of enxplored galaxies,...

Australia's chief scientist launches Zadko telescope

ABC_RN Science Show featured an interview with Prof. David Coward re. the new Zadco telescope, which can capture light from 11 billion years ago, thereby viewing what the universe looked like then –"uncharted and previously unmonitored space."Well worth downloading or...

Naval Observatory 1st Post 9-11 Open House

Washington, DC – Saturday, the United States Naval Observatory (USNO) held its first open house since May 2001. The USNO shares grounds at Observatory Circle with the official residence and office of the...

NASA launches planet-hunting telescope Friday March 6

NASA will launch their planet-hunting telescope tomorrow, Friday March 6, which will look for Earth-like planets to see if there are other places in the solar system that could potentially support human life. The...

Green Comet Lulin Passing by Earth Next Week

A green Comet called Lulin is set to pass by Earth next week, and the way that it travels looks like it is going backwards. This will be the only trip toward the sun that Lulin will take from the outer reaches of...

Small, hot earth-like planet discovered in space

A small, hot, earth-like planet has been discovered just outside our solar system, by the astronomers of the French Space Agency, and it even has a surface to walk on. Using the COROT space telescope, the...

International Year of Astronomy 2009 kicks off January 15

The International Year of Astronomy for 2009 starts on January 15th, and is a global effort by the International Astronomical Union to get all citizens of the world to think about their place in the universe, and the...

CO2 On An Extrasolar Planet(HD 189733b):NASA

Intresting finding of Hubble, the presence of carbondioxide can be connecting link between the existance of biological life as dies on earth."NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the...

Now in Sight: Far from the Planets

A little more of the universe has been come out from the shadows. Two groups of astronomers have taken the pictures of dust ring which seems like planets going around other stars.A red dust ring, seen surrounds...

NASA adjusts launch dates

"HOUSTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. space officials moved the target launch date for the Shuttle Atlantis mission to the Hubble Space Telescope back two days to Oct. 10. The decision was made after Atlantis was rolled to the launch pad Thursday, NASA said Friday in a release....

First light for space telescope

"A powerful Nasa space telescope launched in June has unveiled its first results - including an image of the sky viewed through "gamma-ray glasses". Nasa also revealed a new name; the Gamma-ray Large Area Space...

Aliens calling? Signals detected from beyond Solar System

"Aliens calling? Signals detected from beyond Solar System Scientists in South Africa have detected radio signals from beyond the solar system for the first time – prompting a wave of excitement over who, or...

DIY Stargazing in Siberia

Check it out:  WWII vet and self-taught astronomer Mikhail Sergeyevich Levchenko built his own telescope from scratch in the shadow of the Cold War space race. For years, Levchenko kept it hidden for fear of being thought an eccentric. After his death in 2002, the device...

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