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Posted inNews The most remote world ever seen up close is a mash-up of smaller pieces. Posted inNews Geologically young regions of Pluto’s southern hemisphere were likely resurfaced by cryovolcanism, data from the New Horizons spacecraft reveal. Posted inNews The New Horizons spacecraft recorded images of craters that imply an unexpected dearth of small objects in the Kuiper Belt.
This year, the Hubble telescope celebrates its 26th year in space. It has been a tumultuous period. The telescope was launched with a faulty mirror and all its long range images were blurry for three years, until a repair mission was successfully completed in 1993. Overall, the Hubble has required five manned missions to repair or upgrade its instruments.
On 24 April 1990, the space shuttle Discovery rumbled into space carrying a school bus–sized payload: the largest astronomical telescope ever to fly above the haze of Earth’s atmosphere. Iconic image of star birth in the Eagle Nebula, recorded by Hubble in 1995. Newborn stars are emerging from pockets of interstellar gas. The stars lie at the tips of giant columns of gas and dust, which are the cocoons in which the newborns are incubated.
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