STS-125: The Beginning of the End of an Era
The Space Shuttle Atlantis launched today (Monday, 5/11/09, 12:01 pm MDT) on the fourth and (declared) final mission to service the 20-year old Hubble Space Telescope. Launched in 1990, the Hubble...
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Hubble, as a movie camera!
There are times when “Wow!” just isn’t enough of a word. Astronomers just released movies made by stitching together 14 years of Hubble Space Telescope images to reveal the beautiful and fascinating...
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Gateway to the Stars May 5 – Galaxies!
This month’s performance of Gateway to the Stars will feature some of the grandest objects in the universe – the “galaxies”! For centuries, our Milky Way Galaxy was thought to house all of the...
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Pluto – How many moons?
Pop quiz, hotshot! How many moons does Pluto have? 1) None. Pluto isn’t a planet anymore, remember? If you’re not a planet you can’t have moons. 2) One. It’s called Charon and it was discovered in...
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This is Why You Own a Telescope
Telescopes are time machines. With an amateur telescope you can look back in time to see things as they were long ago because space is so huge that light, even at a blistering speed 186,000 miles per...
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