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ann1219 — Announcement

Hubblecast 61: A tour of NGC 5189

18 December 2012: In this episode of the Hubblecast, Dr Joe Liske (aka Dr J) invites us to tour NGC 5189, a planetary nebula in our galaxy. The nebula looks like a ribbon in space, with a complex structure that comes from the dying throes of a Sun-like star at its centre. Credits ...

ann1218 — Announcement

Hubble calendar 2013 now available to download and print

14 December 2012: A calendar featuring Hubble’s most amazing pictures of the last year is now available to download for free. With pictures of galaxies, stars and nebulae, the 2013 Hubble Space Telescope calendar is guaranteed to brighten up every month. The calendar is available to download in a number of formats including ...

ann1217 — Announcement

Hubblecast 60: Galaxy scores a bullseye

6 December 2012: Episode 60 of the Hubblecast explores NGC 922, a galaxy that has been hit square-on by another. Ripples of star-formation are still propagating out across thousands of light-years of space over 300 million years after the collision, making it a prime example of what astronomers call a collisional ring galaxy. ...

ann1216 — Announcement

Hubblecast now available with subtitles

27 November 2012: The Hubblecast, ESA’s popular vodcast which explores the Universe through the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope, is now available with subtitles. Future episodes will be published with embedded subtitles in English, plus a selection of other languages submitted by a team of volunteer translators. Work on subtitling the archive ...

ann1215 — Announcement

Hubblecast 59: Unweaving the rainbow

12 November 2012: In this episode of the Hubblecast, we do away with Hubble’s stunning pictures of the cosmos, and focus on one of the telescope’s most important — but least known — functions. Like a digital camera, Hubble’s cameras produce colour images by sampling just a handful of colours and combining them ...

ann1214 — Announcement

Hubblecast 58: Caught in the cosmic web

16 October 2012: In this episode of the Hubblecast, Joe Liske (aka Dr J) shows how a team of astronomers has used Hubble and a battery of other telescopes to discover the secrets of massive galaxy cluster MACS J0717. They have discovered that an invisible filament of dark matter extends out of the ...

ann1213 — Announcement

An Even Sharper View of the Universe

24 August 2012: An updated version of the popular ESA/Hubble Top 100 Images app is now available to download from iTunes. The new version takes full advantage of the third generation iPad’s retina display and quad core graphics. The free app transforms the iPad into an exciting window to the Universe and allows ...

ann1212 — Announcement

Hubblecast 57: Hubble’s hidden treasures revealed

23 August 2012: In this episode of the Hubblecast, Joe Liske (aka Dr J) presents the winners of the Hidden Treasures image processing competition. In May 2012, we asked members of the public to delve into Hubble's vast science archive to uncover pictures that had never been seen outside of the scientific community ...

ann1211 — Announcement

Hubble’s Hidden Treasures Revealed

23 August 2012: Hubble has made over a million observations since launch, but only a small proportion are attractive images — and an even smaller number are ever actually seen by anyone outside the small groups of scientists that publish them. But the vast amount of data in the archive means that there ...

ann1210 — Announcement

Vote for your favourite Hubble treasure

1 August 2012: In April and May, ESA/Hubble invited the public to search through the archive and uncover hidden treasures (ann1203). These are Hubble images that have never been published, and have only ever been seen by a handful of scientists up to now. The response was overwhelming: almost 3000 submissions in two ...

ann1209 — Announcement

100 000 Facebook Friends!

16 July 2012: ESA’s Facebook community for the Hubble Space Telescope has recently welcomed its 100 000th member. We would like to thank all our friends for their curiosity about space, their interest in the Hubble Space Telescope and their support in sharing the wonders of the Universe with the world. Each of ...

ann1208 — Announcement

Hubblecast 56: Dramatic change spotted on a faraway planet

28 June 2012: In this episode of the Hubblecast, Dr J (aka Dr Joe Liske) presents the latest discovery about HD 189733b, an exoplanet that has been repeatedly studied by Hubble. Observations taken in 2011 using Hubble and the Swift satellite showed a flare from the planet’s parent star scorching the upper atmosphere and ...

ann1207 — Announcement

European Hubble Archive Moves to Spain

22 June 2012: The European science archive for the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been transferred to ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Villanueva de la Cañada near Madrid, Spain. This guarantees a permanent home for Hubble science data following the closure of the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), located at ...

ann1206 — Announcement

Hubblecast 55: Crash of the Titans

31 May 2012: In this episode of the Hubblecast, scientists Jay Anderson and Roeland van der Marel show how they have used Hubble observations to predict the future of the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way. Projecting the motion of Andromeda’s stars over the next 8 billion years, the astronomers now know the ...

ann1205 — Announcement

Hubblecast 54: 22 years in pictures

17 April 2012: To celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope this month, episode 54 of the Hubblecast gives a slideshow of some of the best images from over two decades in orbit, set to specially commissioned music. Please note that although this episode does not have narration, the images ...

ann1204 — Announcement

Hubblecast 53: Hidden Treasures in Hubble's Archive

27 March 2012: Over two decades in orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope has made a huge number of observations. Every week, we publish new ones on the Hubble website. But hidden in Hubble’s huge data archives are some truly breathtaking images that have hardly ever been seen by anyone. In this episode, Dr ...

ann1203 — Announcement

Join the 2012 Hubble's Hidden Treasures Competition

27 March 2012: Over two decades in orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope has made a huge number of observations. Every week, we publish new images on the ESA/Hubble website. But hidden in Hubble’s huge data archives are still some truly breathtaking images that have never been seen in public. We call them Hubble’s ...

ann1202 — Announcement

Educational App with ESA/Hubble Content in New York Times Top 10 Best iPad Apps

18 January 2012: The New York Times has included the Back in Time app developed by the company Landka among its Top 10 iPad apps in 2011. ESA/Hubble went into partnership with Landka to deliver content for this educational app, which is an animated history e-book that guides the reader through time from ...

ann1201 — Announcement

Hubblecast 52: The Death of Stars

17 January 2012: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is famous for looking deep into the past of the Universe. But it can also predict the future. This episode of the Hubblecast takes us on a journey five billion years from now, to see the ultimate fate of the Solar System. Using stunning Hubble ...

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