Pluto Images Show Changing Surface
New Hubble images of Pluto have revealed that the surface of the dwarf planet changed between 2000 and 2002.
Tag Archives: Hubble
Hubble Brewing
Herschel and Planck will be occupying our attention late next week, but before then, Hubble once again takes centre stage.
Servicing mission 4 (SM4) will launch on Monday from Cape Canaveral (2pm EST) this coming Monday (May 11th). The shuttle Atlantis is performing the mission. There will be another shuttle on standby, acting as a lifeboat [...]
Over Twitter Update
I have updated and expanded the collection of ISS- and Hubble-spotting Twitter feeds. You can get the low down on these transit-predicting feeds on my Over Twitter page, which also now features a map showing the list of current feeds and the next expected transit information.
Exoplanets Revealed
A lot of people are already blogging this but here we have it: an optical image of a planet orbiting around another star. The star is Fomalhaut and the planet is excitingly named Fomalhaut b. Name suggestions anyone?
Space Telescopes on Google Earth
Continuing my series of posts regarding Google Sky and Google Earth, here is a KMZ file that will let you find some of the prominent and interesting space telescopes and satellites on Google Earth. This file includes real-time position tracking and 1 hour flight paths for 9 different space telescopes and satellites.
Nebulae in 3D
This is more art than science, but it is very pretty. Stereoscopic 3D images give full colour and allow each nebula to show another dimension of beauty.
ESA’s Cosmic Vision: Part 1
We had a talk yesterday from Dr. Fabio Favata titled “Space Astronomy in ESA’s Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 plan”. Cosmic Vision is the European Space Agency’s peculiar name for its plan over the next decade and a bit. The talk was very good, and covered almost the whole breadth of ESA’s big activities that are either [...]
10 Awesome Space Wallpapers
Here are some of my personal favourite wallpapers for your desktop (and iPhone). Sizes 1900×1200, 1024×768, 1280×800 and 800×600 are all here to fill your eyes with spacey goodness. Let your own scattering of icons sit amongst glorious nebula and spectacular scenes!
I usually have a nice space picture as my computer’s desktop wallpaper. Today someone [...]
Look Up: iPhone Satellite Predictions
Look Up (v1.0) is an iPhone (or iPod touch) web application that can tell you when to look out for satellites in the night sky. It covers pretty much anywhere in the world and predicts transits for the International Space Station, Hubble, Envisat, Genesis 1 and 2 and for a short while will predict appearances [...]
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