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Through struggles, to the stars.

A Tumblog dedicated to the majestic feat of engineering that is the Hubble Space Telescope. Run by Laura.

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CTIO Image of Carina Nebula by NASA Goddard Photo and Video on Flickr.

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This panel of images reveals a newly discovered exploding star, the faraway galaxy in which it resides, and its location in the night sky over Baltimore, Md.
Named Supernova Mikulski, in honor of the United States Senator from Maryland Barbara A. Mikulski, the explosion was spotted Jan. 25, 2012, by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys. The supernova, which lies 7.5 billion light-years away, is the death of a star more than eight times as massive as our Sun.

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Chance Alignment Between Galaxies Mimics a Cosmic Collision

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows a rare view of a pair of overlapping galaxies, called NGC 3314. The two galaxies look as if they are colliding, but they are actually separated by tens of millions of light-years, or about ten times the distance between our Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. The chance alignment of the two galaxies, as seen from Earth, gives a unique look at the silhouetted spiral arms in the closer face-on spiral, NGC 3314A.

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Resembling a Fourth of July skyrocket, Herbig-Haro 110 is a geyser of hot gas from a newborn star that splashes up against and ricochets off the dense core of a cloud of molecular hydrogen. Although the plumes of gas look like whiffs of smoke, they are actually billions of times less dense than the smoke from a July 4 firework. This Hubble Space Telescope photo shows the integrated light from plumes, which are light-years across.
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Hubble’s Millionth Observation
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reached its millionth science observation on July 4, 2011, during a search for water in the atmosphere of an exoplanet (a planet outside our solar system) 1,000 light-years away.
This is an artist’s concept of that planet, HAT-P-7b. It is a “hot Jupiter” class planet orbiting a star that is much hotter than our sun. Hubble Space Telescope’s millionth science observation was trained on this planet to look for the presence of water vapor and to study the planet’s atmosphere.

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Hubble Space Telescope Daphne Hallas

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Nucleus of Galaxy Centaurus A

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