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Few telescopes in history have had such a profound effect on astronomical research as the Hubble Space Telescope.

Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have found a likely solution to a centuries-old riddle of the night sky.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged a wild creature of the dark -- a coiled galaxy with an eye-like object at its center.

Measuring the Hubble constant was one of the three major goals for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope before it was launched in 1990.

Explanation: These detailed Hubble Space Telescope close-ups feature Jupiter's ancient swirling storm system known as the Great Red Spot.

Zoom in to see imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope, learn about the lifecycle of a star, or even view the constellations.

But now, Spitzer Space Telescope's incredible infrared camera has transformed the little smudge into a beautiful space photo.

"For one, the Hubble Space Telescope has weighed in on dark energy by virtue of the measurements of supernovae, " he said.

Mahdavi and his team have secured more time with Chandra and the Hubble Space Telescope to confirm the dark matter findings.

European astronomers have given a jubilant account of what they say are stunning discoveries made by the Planck space telescope.

That same $1B could have been used to build and launch a new Space Telescope.

Mercury is a forbidden target for the Hubble Space Telescope; the planet orbits too close to the sun.

Having found a promising one in the constellation Leo, they turned the Hubble space telescope on it.

Nasa released images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope which revealed some unusual and colourful changes to the surface of Pluto.

Fine details of the dark band are revealed in this image of the central portion of M64 obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope.

This Hubble Space Telescope image reveals "The Cat's Eye Nebula" to be one of the most complex "planetary nebulae" known.

It's exciting to see the different methods of measuring galaxy distances converge, calibrated by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Now we have all this, starting from the spectacular achievements of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Mars rovers, etc.

A whirlpool-like spiral galaxy is being distorted by the gravitational pull of a neighbor in a new photo from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

"Our observations show us that even the Hubble Space Telescope is only seeing the tip of the iceberg in the distant Universe" .

A shuttle bound for the space telescope would not be able to rendezvous with the station.

But observation by the Hubble Space Telescope in recent years provided convincing evidence for the existence of the event horizon.

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the Cat&squots Eye Nebula to be one of the most complex planetary nebulae known.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a strong new line of evidence that galaxies are embedded in halos of dark matter.

Pictures obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope show that it in fact has a perfect hourglass shape with a tight waist .

Two spacewalking astronauts have been able to install a new camera in the Hubble Space Telescope.

And today is a big day for the astronauts trying to fix the Hubble space telescope.

It was the last shuttle to visit the Hubble Space Telescope.

"I knew that was the famous time, " says the Space Telescope Science Institute astronomer.

The star Merope lies just off the upper left edge of this picture from the Hubble Space Telescope.

On this date in 1990, such dreams were about to come true as the Hubble Space Telescope was put into orbit.

"We're not closer to discovering life on this particular planet, " admitted Ray Villard of the Space Telescope Science Institute.

Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute today unveiled the deepest portrait of the visible universe ever achieved by humankind.

Baby stars are forming near the eastern rim of the cosmic cloud Perseus, in this infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

So say three teams of scientists who used the Spitzer space telescope to capture the light spectrum of two known extrasolar planets.

The American space agency, NASA, is now building the largest space telescope ever.

Pluto and its moonsAstronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have identified another moon around the dwarf planet Pluto.

Astronauts have struggled to complete the most critical repair to the Hubble Space Telescope in a second spacewalk.

Many faraway stellar systems can be observed through a space telescope.

Although best known for its visible-light images, the Hubble Space Telescope also observes over a limited range of infrared light.

NASA plans no more satellite-servicing missions of this type, with the space telescope or anything else.

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to detect methane -- the first organic molecule found on an extrasolar planet.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope finds a delicate flower in the Ring Nebula, as shown in this image.

He has seen evidence of these warm dusty rings in infrared radiation picked up by the Spitzer space telescope.

Observations from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope hint that all forms of light may not travel through space at the same speed.

Above is a dramatically detailed close-up of the dying star's nebula recorded by the newly upgraded Hubble Space Telescope.

Inthis image, X-rays from Chandra are shown in blue and are overlaid onan optical image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

The space agency is building a new space telescope to look even deeper into the beginnings of the universe.

NASA has released a new image of the busy center of our Milky Way Galaxy taken with the Spitzer Space Telescope.

The James Webb Space Telescope is a complex engineering project. It will be huge -- about the size of a passenger jet.

If things go according to plan, the Hubble Space Telescope will undergo its fifth tune-up in 2008, more than 16 years after deployment.

Astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to work out when precisely our Milky Way Galaxy will crash into its neighbour, Andromeda.

Tonight we honour the Hubble Space Telescope with a cosmic lifetime achievement award.

Following up with the Spitzer Space Telescope, the researchers saw signs of star formation within the blobs.

You'd be hard-pressed to get a NASA scientist to come out and say that the Kepler space telescope is designed to find aliens.

NASA's current chief astronomer, who worked with Roman at the agency, calls her "the mother of the Hubble Space Telescope. "

Its successor is the James Webb Space Telescope, an infrared optimized space observatory scheduled to be deployed in 2014.

NASA is building a new space telescope to look even deeper into the beginnings of the universe.

They launched interplanetary probes and major orbital observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope.

The prime contractor is Northrop Grumman Space Technologies ; the Space Telescope Science Institute will operate JWST after launch.

The laser used in daily life like, you can launch space telescope, will be pushed away from the track space junk.

The image from the Hubble Space Telescope is a spectacular visual reminder of just how thin disk galaxies can be.

The Dumbbell Nebula, also known as Messier 27, pumps out infrared light in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Dr. Mario Livio is the head of the Science Division for the Hubble Space Telescope.

Almost all of the bright objects in this Hubble Space Telescope image are galaxies in the cluster known as Abell 2218.

A replica of the Hubble Space Telescope, as seen at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, in Washington, D. C.

Weinberg made the comments while speaking at a dark energy workshop at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

The upgrade should keep it running until 2014 when its successor, the James Webb space telescope, is supposed to be launched.

Meanwhile, Nasa's Fermi Space Telescope is taking a different approach to try to pin down dark matter.

This diagram illustrates the extent of the largest ring around Saturn, discovered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Astronomers examining Hubble Space Telescope images of distant Sedna say the planetoid is even more mysterious than they first thought.

An image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope gives the clearest view ever of the Quintuplet star cluster.

These data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal a newborn star at the center of our Milky Way.

The Herschel space telescope spotted the molecules in a star-forming region in the constellation of Orion.

The colors map emission from ionized gas in the nebula were recorded by the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys.

Using pictures taken with the Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists first removed light from closer stars and galaxies.

The Hubble Space Telescope continues to make valuable discoveries after more than twenty years in orbit around Earth.

It will be too dim to be seen with the naked eye, however, and it will be moving too fast for viewing by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The above image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, is presented in three colors chosen for scientific interest.

Earlier this year, a congressional committee recommended killing the James Webb Space Telescope, the Hubble's successor.

The release of this stunning vista celebrates the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit.

Hubble Space Telescope (HST): Most sophisticated optical observatory ever placed into orbit around Earth.

The Hubble's new Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), mounted on the space telescope in 2009, changed all that.

The Hubble Space Telescope provided an image of a stellar jet in the Carina Nebula.

In 1990 Space Shuttle Discovery launched the Hubble Space Telescope which ushered in a new era of space imaging and astronomical research.

From its position 380 miles above Earth's surface, the Hubble Space Telescope has contributed enormously to astronomy.

But this mosaicked close-up, constructed from Hubble Space Telescope data, follows the galaxy's structure in amazing detail.

The nebula is shown above in unprecedented detail as captured recently by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The scientists have been studying the cloud using WISE, Nasa's infra-red space telescope that is capable of detecting dark objects.

In 1994, a researcher was smuggled one top-secret photo the Hubble Space Telescope had taken of what is presumed to be Heaven.

The scientists have been studying the cloud using WISE, Nasa's infra-red space telescope that is capable of detecting dark objects.

In 1994, a researcher was smuggled one top-secret photo the Hubble Space Telescope had taken of what is presumed to be Heaven.

A collection of Hubble Space Telescope images shows distant supernovas, the death explosions of massive stars.

Researchers measured those distortions with the Hubble Space Telescope.

So in January 2010, he left NASA to become deputy director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, which operates the Hubble.

When the Hubble Space Telescope was pointed at the supernova remnant in 1994, however, the existence of curious rings was confirmed.

The Space Telescope Science Institute conducts Hubble science operations.

Another astronomer has even applied for time on the Spitzer Space Telescope to peer at Galaxy X in infrared wavelengths.

The exoplanet, COROT-7b, was discovered in February by the COROT space telescope launched by the French and European space agencies.

The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency.

The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency.

He's principal investigator of the Large Area Telescope on NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

Next year should see a release of data collected by the US Kepler space telescope, launched into orbit in March 2009.

The Hubble Space Telescope's keen "eye" has been watching Jupiter undergoing recent dramatic atmospheric changes.

That's the year that its intended successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, should ride into space.

The Hubble Space Telescope completed its one millionth scientific observation in July.

The twin-mirrored Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona will deliver images ten times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope's.

They used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover the size of the object.

It was spotted from infrared images taken from Nasa's Spitzer space telescope.

These Hubble Space Telescope images pinpoint distant supernova, which exploded and died billions of years ago.

These Hubble Space Telescope images pinpoint distant supernova, which exploded and died billions of years ago.

Dr. Bruce Morgan is the Associate Director for Science For The Hubble Space Telescope.

Astronomers studied the supernova using the Chandra X-ray space telescope launched by the American space agency Nasa in 1999.

His team used observations from NASA's Spitzer space telescope to investigate dead white dwarf stars.

Ground-based telescopes cannot reliably detect the objects, but the Hubble Space Telescope can.

Dr. Bmce Morgan is the Associate Director for Science for The Hubble Space Telescope.

A powerful collision of galaxy clusters has been captured with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope.

This mission will have a huge impact on science, similar to the impact of the Hubble Space Telescope on modern astrophysics.

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centred in the Milky Way.

This composite image of Cepheus B combines data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope.

This composite image of Cepheus B combines data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope.

This false-color image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the "mountains" where stars are born.

Hubble bubble: A delicate sphere of gas, imaged by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, floats in the depths of space.

Seen so clearly in this sharp Hubble Space Telescope image, the truly cosmic eye is over half a light-year across.

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows NGC 1275, the galaxy located in the center of the Perseus Galaxy Cluster.

The Hubble Space Telescope has photographed many pairs of galaxies colliding.

"the 10 petaflop system will be like the Hubble Space Telescope, " Dongarra said.

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope think they've found Jupiter's missing cloud belt, hiding out behind a layer of ammonia clouds.

A radio-wavelength image taken May 29 along with a Hubble Space Telescope image taken in visible light on April 4 supports that model.

Researchers called them Fermi bubbles, after the Fermi space telescope that spotted them.

Researchers called them Fermi bubbles, after the Fermi space telescope that spotted them.

The resulting resolution is 100 times better than the Hubble Space Telescope.

Tinetti used the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) onboard the Hubble Space Telescope.

The Hubble space telescope is essentially a redesigned spy satellite that points out into space instead of down at the Earth.

Last May astronauts gave the Hubble Space Telescope what will likely be its final overhaul.

The above image was taken in near-infrared light by the Hubble Space Telescope.

She led the effort that resulted in the creation of the Hubble Space Telescope.

The planet-hunting space telescope, Kepler, released its first big batch of data today.

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to make a series of images of planetary nebulae in the mid-1990s, including this one.

It's expected to have 12 times the resolution of Hubble Space Telescope.

It's expected to have 12 times the resolution of Hubble Space Telescope.

The ring was found in infrared light by the Earth-orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope.

Here, Hubble Space Telescope archival image data has been reprocessed to create this alternative look at the well-known galaxy.

The 30 disks seen above are among 42 spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope during a multi year survey of the well-known nebula.

The first of NASA's Great Observatories, the Hubble Space Telescope was carried into orbit in 1990 by the space shuttle.

Atlantis will remain in the OPF until a new launch date is set for the STS-125 mission to service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Two galaxies perform an intricate dance in this new Hubble Space Telescope image.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope caught Jupiter's moon, Ganymede, seemingly playing a game of peek-a-boo in this image from April 2007.

The Kepler space telescope was designed to look at a fixed swathe of the night sky, staring intently at about 150, 000 stars.

Nor is pure science forgotten. China also wants to build a space telescope like America 's Hubble.

Nor is pure science forgotten. China also wants to build a space telescope like America 's Hubble.

The Hubble Space Telescope has taken photos of the Helix Nebula.

Grunsfeld will use the tool to do repairs on the Hubble Space Telescope.

He found data from the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) that showed a noticeable brightening between 1999 and 2001.

IMAX cameras made the trip with the Atlantis crew in 2009 on its mission to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope.

Aninfrared portrait of the Small Magellanic Cloud, taken by NASA'sSpitzer Space Telescope.

It's actually a computer chip that was developed on a camera on board Hubble space telescope.

The James Webb Space Telescope is a complex engineering project.

1993 - Space Shuttle program: STS-61 - NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of a gamma ray explosion on January 23, 1999.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of a gamma ray explosion on January 23, 1999.

This image of the Cat's Eye Nebulawas made by combining data from two of NASA's GreatObservatories--Chandra and the Hubble Space Telescope.

To overcome this problem, astronomer Lyman Spitzer in 1946 proposed to construct a space telescope.

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cluster of young stars in the Milky Way.

It delivered the Hubble Space Telescope and then returned twice to service it.

This sharp image, taken by the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope, spans about 120 light years.

In 1995, astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to make a series of images of planetary nebulae, including the one above.

The first major step in this direction may come from the planned James Webb Space Telescope.

This picture was taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope.

They used the Herschel space telescope to examine Comet Hartley 2, which originated in the Kuiper Belt.

The European Space Agency's Herschel space telescope captured this image in December 2010.

The space telescope has spotted 100 brown dwarfs previously unknown to astronomy.

Two extremely bright stars illuminate a greenish mist inthis image from the Spitzer Space Telescope's "GLIMPSE360" survey.

The image was taken by the Hubble space telescope.

Evidence of gas with temperatures between 100 and 1, 000 degrees Kelvin in the tail was also found with the Spitzer Space Telescope.

The shuttle landed at Edwards Air Force Base, concluding the 13-day STS-125 mission to service and repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

The final space walk to fix the Hubble space telescope is underway.

Europe's COROT space telescope has been particularly successful and will find many more planets in 2009.

Both visible light and near-infrared images were made using the Hubble Space Telescope's newly installed Wide Field Camera 3.

This picture, spanning about 5 light years, was taken in 1995 by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.

This picture, spanning about 5 light years, was taken in 1995 by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.

This is an artist's conception, not a view from the Hubble Space Telescope.

The NASA outer space telescope detected 5 planets outside solar system.

They would execute the STS-125 mission to repair the "Hubble" space telescope for HASH.

That might change as newer planet-hunting missions, such as the Kepler space telescope, begin to bear fruit.

TheHubble Space Telescope has sent back remarkably detailed images ofPluto.

The Hubble Space Telescope takes clear photos of deep space for US$6 billion.

Even before the space telescope takes flight, scientists expect to learn more about the habitability of our nearest planetary neighbor.

We put it on the space telescope before we launched it.

PSR J0357 was originally discovered by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope in 2009.

Many of the images you are seeing are earlier from the Hubble space telescope.

The space telescope was launched into Earth orbit in March 2009.

SLIDE SHOW: Best Hubble Space Telescope Images of 2009.

Even the exquisite Hubble Space Telescope, for example, shows only blurry regions of light and dark on Pluto's surface.

Service to end-1999, satellite space telescope recorded 80, 000 including the Milky Way's cosmic-ray sources.

One of the shuttle program's achievements had been to demonstrate that people could refurbish satellites such as the Hubble Space Telescope.

This image of galaxy cluster MACS J1206. 2-0847 was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope.

Pictured above by the Hubble Space Telescope are about 100, 000 of M72's stars.

And so, here's an image from the Hubble space telescope.

The picture was taken in 1993 with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope.

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study the dimmest stars in the cluster, astronomers uncovered three different age groups.

Perhaps a fitting tribute to this ancient holiday is this view of the Ghost Head Nebula taken with the Hubble Space Telescope.

JWST was formerly known as the "Next Generation Space Telescope" (NGST). JWST

Packaging of large-area, individually addressable, micro-mirror arrays for the next generation space telescope

Image to right: This image of the Hubble Space Telescope was taken by the Space Shuttle crew during a servicing mission. Credit: NASA

A case study of Hubble Space Telescope proposal processing, planning and long-range scheduling

Astronauts will be allowed to upgrade the Hubble space telescope after all

Because of the high energy particles here, the Hubble Space Telescope must be switched off when it passes through several times a day;

There were successes, too. One was the 1993 in-orbit repair of the Hubble Space Telescope;

Tools in maintenance, a strategy for success in maintaining the Hubble Space Telescope science ground systems

Simulation of Space Telescope Component's Vibration Experiment

Study on the thermal optics property of primary mirror applied on a space telescope

An AI scheduling environment for the Hubble Space Telescope

Assessment Of Options For Extending The Life Of The Hubble Space Telescope: Final Report

Thermal Analysis and Design for High Resolution Space Telescope

China's first space telescope anticipated to be launched in 2012

The plume was first seen by the Hubble Space Telescope two weeks ago and then by New Horizons on February 26;

Polymer Film Mirror for Space Telescope

The Design of EDAC System for Solar Space Telescope

Images From the Hubble Space Telescope

The centre of NGC 6240 as observed by the Hubble Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope, JWST

Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope

Kepler Space Telescope