amazing hubble telescope stories 2019

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  Blame loose screws and 'excessive optimism' for the latest delay of NASA's new space telescope

  James Webb is now slated for a 2021 launch—only a bajillion years late.

  ... proposal to Congress in early 2019. When NASA announced the last ... research beyond NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. It's going to do amazing things—things ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  Q&A With 'The Pluto Doctor'

  New Horizons scientist Leslie Young discusses what to expect from the flyby on Tuesday, and the 28-year wait leading up to it

  ... we had seen from the Hubble space telescope. What do you think ... 1989. The two Voyagers were amazing spacecrafts that really opened up ...

  By Shannon Stirone
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  Here's an amazing new picture of the Lagoon Nebula to celebrate Hubble's 28th birthday

  Happy birthday to the best space telescope ever! Love, PopSci.

  ... It's pretty amazing, even with low-tech binoculars or higher-tech telescopes. But to ... stellar 'fireworks' displays. Happy Birthday Hubble! Here's hoping for many more.

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  Space Shots: The Universe's Best Images

  A gallery of photos, visualizations, and other pictures of outer space.

  ... scientific visualizations, and of course, amazing astronomy images.X-ray observations have shown ... closer, and purple is farther.The Hubble telescope captured this beautiful shot of ...

  By Popular Science Staff
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  Celebrate Hubble's 25th Birthday With 26 Of Its Most Gorgeous Images

  A Gallery Of Photos Curated By The Person Who Made Most Of Them

  ... Over those years, the space telescope produced the most inspiring images ... Levay, who joined the then-newly-formed Hubble organization in 1983 and has ...

  By Katie Peek
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  In his first PopSci appearance, a young Stephen Hawking explains an incredible discovery

  In the December 1980 issue of Popular Science, a 38-year-old theoretical physicist answers the ultimate question about the universe.

  ... redder than normal in a telescope. When Hubble analyzed the pattern of ... fascinate me," Schmidt declares. "It's amazing that the universe manages to ...

  By Peter Gwynne
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  Huge, Alien-Hunting Telescope Could Become Hubble's Successor

  Introducing the High-Definition Space Telescope

  ... could be the next generation's Hubble—it would profoundly alter the ... in the universe. The Outlook Amazing telescopes don't come cheap. AURA estimates ...

  By Sarah Fecht
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  NASA just caught a glimpse of the mysterious object New Horizons will reach in 2019

  There's still more to explore after Pluto.

  ... locations to help block the telescopes (and the astronomers crewing them ... to measurements gathered by the Hubble, we do know its trajectory. ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  The 12 craziest Hubble pictures of all time

  Otherworldly desktop backgrounds.

  ↑ The Hubble Space Telescope has continuously unleashed a stream ... most amazing pictures it's given us over the years.↑ Released on Hubble's ...

  By Josh Hrala
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  'Project Blue' Aims To Take The First Snapshot Of A Twin Earth

  Seeking a distant pale blue dot

  ... both, which would be an amazing discovery.”How It Will Work ... build more generalized space telescopes like the Hubble. The goal is to ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  Data from 1997 just gave us new insight into Europa—our best chance at finding alien life

  Confirming hints picked up by the Hubble just a few years ago.

  ... of the project in late 2019. Armed with this new data ... gaze at Europa through telescopes like the Hubble (and the perpetually displayed ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  Forget the Blood Moon, the Red Planet is waiting for you tonight

  Mars is at its closest and clearest right now. You know you want to look at it.

  ... “blood moon” is a pretty amazing phenomenon for sky-gazers to witness ... features of the surface through telescopes. Unfortunately, there's a planet-encompassing dust ...

  By Sara Chodosh
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  NASA Gets Serious About Its Next Big Telescope

  With a view 100 times larger than Hubble's, the WFIRST scope could discover thousands of exoplanets and millions of galaxies

  ... WFIRST will surely provide an amazing new view of the universe ... Space Telescope, whose inventors also hope it could become "the next Hubble. ...

  By Sarah Fecht
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  NASA's most anticipated new telescope just got delayed again

  The James Webb Space Telescope has an ever-expanding timeline—and projected cost.

  ... mission (as NASA did with Hubble). If something goes wrong with ... progressing. NASA's other upcoming space telescope, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  A Galaxy Extremely Far, Far Away

  Hubble spots the most distant galaxy yet

  ... said. Though this is an amazing achievement, the astrophysical community hopes ... the long-anticipated James Webb Space Telescope launches in October of 2018.

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  Computers Might Take Crowdsourced Science Away From Us Too

  Teach a computer to see and it'll work for a lifetime

  ... the differences between galaxies in Hubble images. The computer algorithm was ... help spot tumors. It's an amazing new tool. But if you're ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  Here's the weird alphabet soup that scientists use to name stuff in space

  I is for interstellar.

  ... be too faint for even telescopes like Hubble to see it. ” But ... by on New Year's Day 2019. Suggestions so far include nuts ...

  By Mary Beth Griggs
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  Beyond Pluto: Meet The New Horizons Spacecraft's Next Target

  This summer, the mission may get funding to travel to a mysterious rock at the edge of the solar system

  ... and then moved to the Hubble Space Telescope, leading scientists to the ... of confirmation it will be 2019. At the time of the ...

  By Shannon Stirone
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  NASA's Using 3-D Printed Models To Figure Out What Happens When Stars Nearly Collide

  Short answer: They create a beautiful swirling mess.

  ... , NASA satellites and the Hubble Space Telescope to create images and 3-D ... than a decade. For more amazing images compiled by Gull and ...

  By Lydia Ramsey
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  Is NASA Going To Let The Hubble Telescope Burn Up?

  With no plans for future upgrades, the telescope faces a fiery end

  ... 2009 mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. As it approached its ... its desired orbit--or let the Hubble telescope fall to Earth, which it ...

  By Loren Grush
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  These 9 Instruments Will Find Out Whether Aliens Could Live On Europa

  Figuring out if conditions are right for life on Jupiter's icy moon

  ... is hoping to get some amazing photos of Europa's surface by ... living on Europa. Recently the Hubble Space Telescope spied water vapor above ...

  By Loren Grush
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  We Made It To Pluto! What's Next For New Horizons?

  Stranger worlds to come

  ... ?With the help of the Hubble Space Telescope, the New Horizons team ... eyes on another KBO by 2019. Why do KBOs matter? Well ...

  By Sarah Fecht
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  We may finally have a way to weigh the Milky Way

  But more importantly, we know a bit more about why the galaxy is the way it is.

  ... , a scientist with the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore and ... their data collection using decade-long Hubble observations of 12 other clusters ...

  By Neel V. Patel
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  After 20 Years, NASA Finally Finished Building The James Webb Space Telescope

  Now it's ready for the final tests before launch in 2018

  ... complete. The telescope, which is twice the size of Hubble with a ... by the success of the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA and its European ...

  By Knvul Sheikh