Posts Tagged ‘hubble’
Titan, Enceladus, Dione, and Mimas Transit of Saturn
Taken February, 2009 - Hubble "This picture was taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on 24 February 2009, when Saturn was at a distance of roughly 1.25 billion kilometres from Earth. Hubble can see details as small as 300 kilometres across on Saturn. This close-up view of Saturn's disc captures the transit of several moons [...]
Organic Molecules Detected in Exoplanet Atmosphere | Universe Today
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Telescopes on Twitter
Twitter is trivial, annoying and pointless. Really? I suppose you have to figure out what it might be good for. For me, the idea that you can have SMS style news feeds from Spacecrafts and Telescopes is pretty amazing.
Astonomy Picture of the day – Lagoon Nebula
Cool image of the Lagoon Nebula. Taken as part of the GigaGalaxyZoom Project.
Life after Hubble?
I recently blogged that the absense of Hubble would leave a huge gap in astrophography which didn't seem likely to be filled anytime soon. NASA however just released this amazing photo of M31 (Andromeda galaxy to most of us) showing over 20,000 UV light sources.The image was taken by the SWIFT spacecraft which was launched in 2004. It is the [...]