News tagged with planetary camera

Image: Hubble peeks inside a stellar cloud

(Phys.org) -- These bright stars shining through what looks like a haze in the night sky are part of a young stellar grouping in one of the largest known star formation regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Hubble finds stellar life and death in a globular cluster

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows globular cluster NGC 1846, a spherical collection of hundreds of thousands of stars in the outer halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Space telescopes reveal secrets of turbulent black hole

(PhysOrg.com) -- A fleet of spacecraft including NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered unprecedented details in the surroundings of a supermassive black hole. Observations reveal huge bullets of gas ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Phobos slips past Jupiter (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Earlier this month, ESA's Mars Express performed a special manoeuvre to observe an unusual alignment of Jupiter and the martian moon Phobos. The impressive images have now been processed into ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Camera that saved Hubble leaves nest for good

The historic Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, developed and built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, left JPL Wednesday morning, Oct. 13, for points east. Known informally ...

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created Oct 14, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Hubble Photographs a Planetary Nebula to Commemorate Decommissioning of Super Camera

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. In tribute to Hubble's longest-running optical ...

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created May 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The Camera That Saved Hubble... Twice: JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- First motion is almost always a big event in the world of space exploration. Whether the first motion is of a wheel beginning to rotate or a rocket lifting off the pad, first motion means ...

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created May 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1