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ann0716 — Announcement

"Death Star" : Galaxy black hole fires at neighbouring galaxy

17 December 2007: A powerful jet from a supermassive black hole is blasting a nearby galaxy, according to new data from NASA/ESA observatories. This never-before witnessed galactic violence may have a profound effect on planets in the jet's path and trigger a burst of star formation in its destructive wake. Known as 3C ...

ann0715 — Announcement

Hubble finds young white dwarfs on the fast track

4 December 2007: These images show young and old white dwarf stars – the burned-out relics of normal stars – in the ancient globular star cluster NGC 6397. The image at left, taken by a ground-based telescope, shows the dense swarm of hundreds of thousands of stars that make up the globular cluster. ...

ann0714 — Announcement

Hubble astronomer turns hundreds of young eyes to the night skies

27 November 2007: Hubble astronomer Guido de Marchi showed the wonders of the Universe to hundreds of children at the inaugural International Space camp "Deepspace 2007" held near the Tidbinbilla Deep Space Tracking Station in Australia. Young boy and girl scouts from 11 to 18 years travelled from across the vast continent of ...

ann0713 — Announcement

Hubblecast 10 out: A behind the scenes look at the making of the Hubble images

8 November 2007: Do you ever look at the beautiful images from Hubble and wonder how they were made? What exactly happens after the faint light from distant objects is detected by Hubble? How are these cosmic photons captured in space transformed into the glorious colour images down here on your wall or ...

ann0712 — Announcement

New Journal for astronomy communicators goes live!

26 October 2007: A new peer-reviewed journal released today by the IAU will provide astronomy communicators with important tools and innovative resources to communicate more effectively the workings of the Universe to the public. IAU President Catherine Cesarsky says "We are pleased to announce the first issue of the Communicating Astronomy with the ...

ann0711 — Announcement

Hubble Spies Shells of Sparkling Stars Around Quasar

25 October 2007: These sharp images taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveal at least five shells of stars surrounding a brilliant quasar at the heart of a giant elliptical galaxy. The image at left shows the quasar, known as MC2 1635+119, and its host galaxy [centre] against a backdrop of distant ...

ann0710 — Announcement

Hubble Captures Stars Going Out in Style

11 September 2007: The colourful, intricate shapes in these NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope images reveal how the glowing gas ejected by dying Sun-like stars evolves dramatically over time. These gaseous clouds, called planetary nebulae, are created when stars in the last stages of life cast off their outer layers of material into space. ...

ann0709 — Announcement

Going, Going, Gone: Hubble Captures Uranus's Rings on Edge

23 August 2007: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures a rare view of the entire ring system of the planet Uranus, tilted edge-on to Earth. The rings were photographed with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on August 14, 2007. The edge-on rings appear as spikes above and below the planet. The rings ...

ann0708 — Announcement

Hubblecast in Full HD!

25 June 2007: The successful video podcast (vodcast) with cool news from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the Hubblecast, is now produced in Full High-Definition (Full HD) format. High-Definition is rapidly evolving into one of the leading video formats in the broadcasting market. This is the first time – to our knowledge – ...

ann0707 — Announcement

Launch date set for fifth Hubble Servicing Mission

7 June 2007: The launch date for the fifth and final Servicing Mission to the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been officially set by NASA managers to 10 September 2008. During the 11-day flight, originally termed Servicing Mission 4, space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts will repair and improve the observatory?s capabilities ...

ann0706 — Announcement

Internship in Graphics Design

11 April 2007: ESA/Hubble VACANCY: Graphics design intern Duty Station: ESA/HubbleEuropean Southern ObservatoryKarl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2D-85748 Garching, Germany Duration: 3-6 monthsStart: as soon as possible Job Description:In the ESA/Hubble science communication office you will work with a small team of professional graphic experts and video animators to produce high-end science communication graphics for printed matter; ...

ann0705 — Announcement

Welcome to Hubblecast!!!

7 March 2007: Now you can follow the latest and coolest news and images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope anytime, anywhere, for free! Just subscribe to the Hubblecast (see the links below). Hubblecast is a Vodcast produced by the ESA/Hubble team in Germany. A Vodcast is a short name for Video On ...

ann0704 — Announcement

Hubble pans across heavens to harvest 50,000 evolving galaxies

6 March 2007: Several hundred images taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have been woven together into a rich tapestry of at least 50,000 galaxies. The Hubble view is yielding new clues about the Universe's youth, from its "pre-teen" years to young adulthood. The snowstorm of galaxies in the Hubble panorama does ...

ann0703 — Announcement

"Hubble – 15 Years of Discovery" gets the "Wiley-VCH Bestseller 2006" prize

20 February 2007: The German version of the "Hubble – 15 Years of Discover" book called "Hubble – 15 Jahre auf Entdeckungsreise" was just announced as the 3rd best selling German-language book from the large international publisher Wiley-VCH in 2006. This book forms part of the European Space Agency's 15th anniversary celebration activities ...

ann0702 — Announcement

Hubble's main camera stops working

30 January 2007: On Saturday, Hubble's main camera, the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), stopped working. Until a solution, at least in part, can be found, Hubble will be returned to work with the remaining instruments. Saturday 27 January 2007 at 13:34 CET, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope entered into a protective "safemode" ...

ann0701 — Announcement

Hands-On Guide for Science Communicators released

17 January 2007: A new book on practical science communication has just been published by Springer, New York. Presented by an experienced science communicator, this work shows how to create the perfect marriage between science and communication. Drawing inspiration and examples from his years of experience in the field, Lars Lindberg Christensen from ...

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