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Less than a year after getting a major overhaul, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped panoramic, full-color images that let astronomers peer more than 13 billion years back into cosmic history.
By Sharon Gaudin | 07 January, 2010 07:07
A space telescope that was launched in May has already begun to collect light left over from the Big Bang that created the universe.
By Sharon Gaudin | 17 August, 2009 05:53
Gearing up for their fifth and final spacewalk today, the crew of the space shuttle Atlantis hoped to install the last set of batteries and a sensor that should help the Hubble Space Telescope point at its celestial targets.
By Sharon Gaudin | 19 May, 2009 08:07
The fourth spacewalk of the mission to repair and update the Hubble Space Telescope is under way, with astronauts working to bring back to life a key instrument that has been down for the last five years.
By Sharon Gaudin | 18 May, 2009 02:41
During a 7-hour-and-20-minute spacewalk today, NASA astronauts gave the Hubble Space Telescope a new backup computer to replace the onboard system that had to be put into use after a technical failure last fall.
By Sharon Gaudin | 15 May, 2009 08:09
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