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2. List of Hubble Space Telescope anniversary images - Wikipedia

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   The 17th-anniversary celebration featured a panorama of part of the Carina Nebula, and a collection of images selected from that area.. In its 17 years of exploring the heavens, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made nearly 800,000 observations and snapped nearly 500,000 images of more than 25,000 celestial objects.

3. Edwin Hubble - Wikipedia

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   Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) [1] was an American astronomer. He played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology. [2][3] Hubble proved that many objects previously thought to be clouds of dust and gas and classified as "nebulae" were actually galaxies ...

4. Hubble Space Telescope - Wikipedia

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   Hubble was finally launched in 1990, but its main mirror had been ground incorrectly, resulting in spherical aberration that compromised the telescope's capabilities. The optics were corrected to their intended quality by a servicing mission in 1993. Hubble is the only telescope designed to be maintained in space by astronauts.

5. Jennifer Wiseman - Wikipedia

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   Jennifer J. Wiseman is Senior Project Scientist on the Hubble Space Telescope, and an American astronomer, born in Mountain Home, Arkansas. [1] She earned a bachelor's degree in physics from MIT and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from Harvard University in 1995. Wiseman discovered periodic comet 114P/Wiseman-Skiff while working as an undergraduate search ...

6. Phil Plait - Wikipedia

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   Phil Plait. Philip Cary Plait (born September 30, 1964), [1] also known as The Bad Astronomer, is an American astronomer, skeptic, and popular science blogger. Plait has worked as part of the Hubble Space Telescope team, images and spectra of astronomical objects, as well as engaging in public outreach advocacy for NASA missions.

7. James Webb Space Telescope - Wikipedia

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   James Webb Space Telescope. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy. As the largest telescope in space, it is equipped with high-resolution and high-sensitivity instruments, allowing it to view objects too old, distant, or faint for the Hubble Space Telescope. [ 9 ]

8. Fornax - Wikipedia

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   The Hubble's Ultra-Deep Field is located within the Fornax constellation. [1] It is the 41st largest constellation in the night-sky, occupying an area of 398 square degrees. It is located in the first quadrant of the southern hemisphere (SQ1) and can be seen at latitudes between +50° and -90° during the month of December.

9. Hubble (film) - Wikipedia

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   IMAX cameras were taken to the Hubble Space Telescope on STS-61 (Servicing Mission 1 in December 1993) and on STS-125 (Servicing Mission 4 in May 2009, the final Space Shuttle mission to the Hubble) which carried an IMAX 3D camera. The IMAX 3D camera contained a mile of film, though this allowed for only 8 minutes 30 seconds of footage to be ...