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The Best Of The Year In Space

It’s been a big year for the space sciences. The first privately-held spacecraft orbited our world, the blackest material in history was created, researchers expanded the list of possible sources of life threefold; and that was just in December.

November 10, 2010
Science

A Galaxy, Edgewise

This segment of light suspended in space is actually an entire galaxy, spanning 35,000 light years across and containing billions of stars. We just happen to be looking at it almost perfectly edge-on.

October 22, 2010
Science

This Is The Oldest Space Object Ever Found

This is the oldest object we’ve found yet in space. It’s a galaxy whose light travelled more than 13 billion light-years before it was visible to Hubble. And it’s only 600 million years older than the universe itself.

September 23, 2010
Science

Imagine You Had A Camera With A ZillionX Zoom

This colossal star nest 5000 light years away, in the Sagittarius constellation, is the heart of the Lagoon Nebula. Now, imagine you could operate the Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys like a gigantic DSLR camera with telephoto lenses.

September 4, 2010
Science

This Is How A Supernova Shockwave Looks

See that pink ring glowing in the middle of space? That’s the shockwave of Supernova 1987A hitting a gas ring that was ejected from the dying star 20,000 years before the fiery explosion. The Hubble keeps leaving me speechless.

August 6, 2010
Science

The Universe Will Never Cease To Amaze Me

This photo shows the Antennae galaxies, which started colliding 100 million years ago, creating million of stars in the process, which later exploded as supernovas. I really find it hard and sad to know that I’ll never see this live.

August 2, 2010
Science

Landlocked Telescope Gives Hubble An Inferiority Complex

The incredibly speedy-but-earthbound Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) has used real-time adaptive optics to cancel out the negative effects of viewing celestial bodies through an atmosphere and recently bested Hubble in terms of accuracy.

July 23, 2010
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The Origin Of The Fastest Hypervelocity Star Ever Detected

Hubble has detected the fastest moving hypervelocity star, even faster than the blue stellar torpedoes caught in 2009. This one moves at 2.5 million km/h. NASA’s theory about its origin is weird:

July 16, 2010
Science

Scientists Discover The First Planet With A Tail

Scientists have discovered the first cometary planet, one with a huge tail, a stream of gas being ripped off by solar winds at 35,406km/h. This Jovian world is located 153 light-years from Earth.

June 18, 2010
Science

This Is The Sharpest Deep Space Picture Ever Taken From Earth

On the left is a picture of a region globular cluster M92 taken by Hubble. On the right, that same cluster as captured by Arizona’s Large Binocular Telescope. That’s three times sharper. And we’re not even at full capacity yet.

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