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Scientists announced an estimate of the universe's age based on new HST images of very faint white dwarf stars in Messier 4 (M4), a cluster of stars ... their age, they become progressively fainter as they cool, making them difficult to observe. The HST had provided the first deep exposures of these dim stars, which the astronomers discovered were ...

... / (accessed 17 August 2008).) NASA announced the release of the first test images from the HST's recently reactivated Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS). The test images of ... installed a new cooling system for the instrument on 3 March 2002 as part of HST Servicing Mission 3B. The new NICMOS Cooling System (NCS) had been a joint project of ...

Observations from the HST revealed the existence of medium-sized black holes. According to scientists, the discovery provided important ... galaxies, including the Milky Way~are nearly 10,000 times less massive than galaxies. The HST data revealed that black holes in globular star clusters are proportionally smaller than massive black ...

... October 2008).) Scientists from California Institute of Technology announced that they had used NASA's HST to measure the true size of an orbiting, planet-like body beyond Pluto. The sphere ... extends 7 billion miles (11.3 billion kilometers) beyond the orbit of Neptune. Using the HST, scientists Michael E. Brown and Chadwick A. Trujillo were able to determine several properties of ...

... the International Space Station ISS before the retirement of the Space Shuttle ; and servicing the HST. In his responses, Griffin stated that, in mid-July, he would release a plan for ... Space Station ISS before the Shuttle's retirement, without cancelling any research programs. Regarding the HST, Griffin stated his opposition to a robotic servicing mission and said that he wished to ...

NASA announced that the HST had captured an unprecedented look at the Orion Nebula, the region of massive star formation ... 06-007, 11 January 2006, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/jan/HQ_06007_HST_AAS.html (accessed 14 September 2009); Ker Than, “The Splendor of Orion : A Star Factory ...

... .nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11644 (accessed 16 March 2010).'' Using images from the HST , astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, were able for the first ... light chemically altered the material, giving it a red hue. Astronomers also speculated that the HST images could indicate a major climate change in Jupiter’s atmosphere, related to the new ...

... /hqnews/2006/nov/HQ_06354_Constellation.html (accessed 7 July 2010).'' Scientists using NASA’s HST reported research demonstrating how an enigmatic form of energy called dark energy has helped shape ... of scientists, led by Adam G. Reiss of the Space Telescope Science Institute , had examined HST data on the luminosity distances of the farthest known supernovae—a type of ancient exploding ...

... organizations had used proprietary software to build components and instruments for the Hubble Space Telescope HST , the software had lacked a UML, preventing the software codes of the various programs from ... with instruments containing incompatible software was a nightmare. Resolving problems in the Hubble Space Telescope HST software had often required NASA to locate the person who wrote the code in the ...

... . Altman eased Atlantis up to within 30 feet (9.1 meters) of Hubble Space Telescope HST . Operating the Shuttle’s robotic arm, K. Megan McArthur captured the telescope at 1:14 ... shut off the gyroscopes. However, the astronauts were unable to discern whether Hubble Space Telescope HST had obeyed their commands. Instead, the crew had to relay the information through the telescopes ...

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