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The fifth and final Space Shuttle servicing mission (STS-125) to the Hubble Space Telescope was launched on May 12, 2009, and, after rendezvous, successfully captured the Hubble with the Shuttle's robot arm on May 13. Work on the Hubble, now 19 years old, was completed on May 18. During five EVAs, four members of the crew of the Shuttle Atlantis replaced much of Hubble's hardware, including the Science Instrument Control & Data Handler, batteries, and six gyroscopes. They also repaired the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph and the Advanced Camera for Surveys, and installed the Wide Field Camera 3 and the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph. Astronauts also installed a docking device which will permit a robotic spacecraft to latch onto Hubble after the telescope's work is complete and direct a controlled re-entry into the Pacific Ocean. The repairs and upgrades should keep the Space Telescope operating through at least 2014. Hubble Space Telescope Search: The Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute has moved their news photo gallery to HubbleSite.org, while still maintaining another image archive at Hubble Heritage. HubbleSite Gallery - Hubble Heritage Gallery - Recent Hubble News & Images You can search HubbleSite.org with their own engine from here, or search either HubbleSite OR Hubble Heritage via Google with the 2nd form below. Be specific; you will get many results. Google Hubble Space Telescope search:
The Astronomy Picture of the Day, from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Views of the Solar System are photos with good text descriptions by Calvin J. Hamilton, describing the celestial bodies and environments making up our Solar System, including data on the sun, planets, asteroids, meteorites, comets, Oort Cloud, and Kuiper Belt. NASA Planetary Photojournal compiles images of the planets from NASA spacecraft. NASA Space Observatorium has images from and info on NASA's planetary, deep space exploration, and astronomy programs. The NCSA Astronomical Image Library has 4000 images, searchable by sky position, name, wavelength, or bibliographic reference, including VRML, movies, and animations. Virtual Observatories:The National Virtual Observatory makes it possible "for astronomical researchers to find, retrieve, and analyze astronomical data from ground- and space-based telescopes worldwide."SkyQuery is an online database searching application for serious astronomers. SkyQuery furnishes information about astronomical objects by drawing on 3 databases, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the the 2MASS project, and the First Radio Survey. NASA GSFC SkyView is a virtual observatory that generates images of any part of the sky at wavelengths ranging from radio to gamma rays. Like TerraServer pointed up instead of down, only moreso. Sky View Café is a free Java applet that lets you use your web browser to see many types of astronomical information, in both graphical and numerical form. You can see which stars and planets will be visible tonight, how the next eclipse will look, or when the Moon rose ten years ago (from any point on the globe), and more. The NASA JPL Solar System Simulator allows you to view perspective images to and from 32 planets and moons from any virtual point in the solar system. |
See also: Science Gifts, Black Holes, Asteroids-Meteoroids, Planets, Mars, & Space Twitter Tweets on Astronomy News
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Telescope Making:
Amateur Telescope Making is a collection of unique tricks, hints, and information about other people's scopes and ideas, intended as a resource for both beginning and advanced amateur telescope makers. Beginners should also take a look at the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston or Mark's Notes for the Amateur Telescope Maker; veterans should check out the ATM (newsgroup) Archives.Other Astronomy Websites:
The website of Sky and Telescope has news, sky events info, tips articles for backyard astronomy and imaging, product review articles, downloads, and more.The Astronomy Magazine website includes news, this month's "sky show", downloadable .pdf articles for beginners, software downloads, and several articles from back issues.
Imagine the Universe, from the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, is an educational site with tutorials and lesson plans on all aspects of astronomy.
Astronomy Workshop is an online astronomy lab, with information for beginners, and java applets to show orbital paths, impact results, etc.
The NASA Astrophysics Data System at Harvard is a bibliographical reference database of over 1.5 million astronomy and physics papers, with links to data and citations.
Earth's Magnetosphere is a non-mathematical tutorial about Earth's space environment of charged particles, with good information for all levels from high school to PhD.'s.
The SETI Institute says they are "to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe." While they are at it, they might Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
Historic Celestial Atlases on the World Wide Web links
Astronomy Search: The DMOZ Open Directory searches for keywords in website titles and descriptions (not page content). You can limit your search to subcategories like Galaxies, Stars, Astrophysics, or Cosmology, or search all Astronomy or Science links.
Google Usenet Newsgroups:
sci.astro (8 groups) - sci.physics (9 groups) - sci.space (7 groups) - sci.space.news - alt.sci.planetary - gov.us.fed.nasa.announce
NASA Books (NASA Special Publications) & Other Astronomy Books Online
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