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The Best Undiscovered Hubble Treasures
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on August 7, 2012 This spring, the Hubble outreach office started a Hubble Treasure Hunt The challenge was to browse through the Hubble raw data archives, and look for undiscovered images, ones that had not been published and were interesting or beautiful. There are a lot of Hubble images. The finalists for the contest have now been announced, in…
NASA: geeks bearing gifts
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on June 5, 2012 In which NASA gets presented with two Hubble class wide field space telescopes… Oh my. So some of the mysterious maneuverings at NASA’s Astrophysics division can now be better understood. The National Reconnaissance Office was sitting on a couple of spare space telescopes they are willing to transfer to NASA. These are presumably late block…
The Cycle 19 demand curve
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on February 25, 2011 Every year we contemplate the Hubble Call for Proposals demand curve.
iPod iChing: inconstant Hubble
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on February 25, 2011 As the Hubble deadline slips away, later than ever, we ask the Mighty iPod One the question whose answer we all must know:
AAS: the return of the snippets
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on January 6, 2010 more invaluable science nuggets and pretty pictures
Hubble Vision
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on December 22, 2009 Set the focus on infinity! A new one from the photomixers…