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Show 12: A Flash of Brilliance
November 16, 2009
A light echo unveils dust patterns around V838 Monoceros. In March 2002, the star V838 Monocerotis flared to 10,000 times its normal brightness. Hubble turned its gaze on the surprising star and captured a series of images of a “light...
Show 11: Hubble is Back!
September 14, 2009
These images are among the first observations made by the new Wide Field Camera 3 aboard Hubble. During the May 2009 servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, astronauts...
Show 10: An Un-peculiar Trio of Galaxies?
August 6, 2009
Hubble’s exquisite resolution reveals details of astronomical objects that have never before been seen. Often, these observations unmask the complex inner workings that help...
Show 9: In the Service of Science
June 29, 2009
In May 2009, seven astronauts aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis visited the Hubble Space Telescope for a final servicing mission. The drama of a shuttle flight with ambitious and challenging...
Show 8: Goodnight Moon
May 6, 2009
Jupiter’s moon, Ganymede, ducks behind the giant planet. Here on Earth, the occasional alignments of the Sun and Moon with our planet are greeted with much fanfare. Solar...
Show 7: Eye Spy a Planet
April 17, 2009
Planet Fomalhaut b, orbiting its parent star, Fomalhaut. Up until the 1990s, we only knew of the planets in our own solar...
Show 6: Hubble's Next Discovery — You Decide
February 6, 2009
Vote to select the next object the telescope will view. Four hundred years ago, Galileo improved the recently invented spyglass, pointed it toward the heavens, and saw things...
Show 5: Through a Lens, Brightly
February 3, 2009
Galaxy cluster Abell 1689 magnifies the light of the galaxies behind it. Einstein’s theory of general relativity...