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Milky Way’s Heart Combines Three Space Telescope Views

2:50AM Jesus Diaz | I’ve seen many amazing, inspiring and humbling deep-space images, but this look inside the heart of our very own galaxy has left me without superlatives. Zoom in to get the 2820×1409 pixel image, and see how it was made. More »
Science

How They Fixed The Hubble

11:48PM Jesus Diaz | Hubble is alive—and delivering amazing images—after the successful mission that fixed it — arguably the most difficult in the history of the shuttle program. Today, PBS’ Nova tells all about it in the Hubble’s Amazing Rescue. Here’s the teaser. [PBS]
Science

NGC4522 Is Where God’s God Lives

2:40AM Jesus Diaz | The new camera in the Hubble keeps sending mindblowing desktop wallpapers to Earth. This is NGC4522, a massive galaxy in the massive Virgo Cluster, where galaxies spin at 10 million km/h. NGC 4402 is just as impressive. More »
Design

What Will The New And Improved Hubble Discover Next?

6:00AM Adam Frucci | The newly-repaired Hubble has begun sending back some pretty extraordinary pictures. But what if it sends back some more…surprising photos? For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I want you to create just that. More »
Science

Hubble Delivers New Zowielala Desktop Backgrounds Once Again

12:50PM Jesus Diaz | They may not be the first, but they are not ugly Jupiter photos. These are the first deep space photos sent by the Hubble after the long and risky May repair mission. This is my favourite, but there are more: More »
Science

Sharpest Photo Of Jupiter’s Earth-Sized Scar Taken By Hubble

1:00AM Dan Nosowitz | Remember how Jupiter just got totally rocked by a huge object, leaving a giant scar? The Hubble team interrupted their testing of the telescope to aim its sights on this very rare sight, and captured the clearest photo yet. More »
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‘Free-Floating’ Black Hole Responsible For One of Hubble’s Big Discoveries?

4:45AM Jack Loftus | Get Me Off This Rock is a distant memory by now, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t bring you word that one of space’s most mysterious phenomena is one step closer to being solved. More »
Entertainment

Filming Hubble Repair Practice, Underwater

12:00AM Mark Wilson | While the Hubble repair eventually took place in space, the microgravity environment of a pool is where astronauts practiced repairs and IMAX scored some footage for the upcoming film Hubble 3D. More »
Science

Good Luck, Hubble

2:30AM Jack Loftus | There she goes. The Hubble space telescope, drifting away from the Space Shuttle Atlantis after her final servicing mission last week. May her new, improved instruments deliver more incredible imagery from the cosmos. [NASA] More »