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... -1089.) NASA announced the selection of TRW Inc. to lead the team to build the HST's successor, a new space-based observatory planned to launch in 2010. NASA planned to ... its partner organizations would build an observatory capable of viewing deeper into space than the HST. The telescope's main mirror would unfold to a diameter of at least 20 feet (6.1 meters), thereby providing six times more light-gathering area than the HST, which had an 8-foot (2.4-meter) primary mirror. The telescope would also have ...

NASA announced that the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope HST had used “a natural 'zoom lens' in space to boost its view of the distant universe,” revealing remote galaxies previously beyond Hubble Space Telescope HST 's reach. For more than 13 hours, the camera had concentrated on one of the ... space, bending and magnifying the light of the galaxies behind it. The Hubble Space Telescope HST image captured hundreds of galaxies~ 10 times more arcs than a ground-based telescope could ...

... decided to eliminate all future servicing missions to the space telescope. NASA had conducted previous HST servicing missions to replace aging or inoperable components and to install new technologically improved equipment ... of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, based on assessments of the risk to astronauts performing HST servicing missions. (NASA, “ Hubble Space Telescope : Program News Archive,” http://hubble.nasa.gov/news/archive ...

... robotic servicing mission, planned for launch in 2007, would perform maintenance and upgrades of the HST, including changing batteries and gyroscopes, repairing malfunctioning equipment, and adding new instruments. If successful, the mission would extend the operational life of the 15-year-old HST by at least five years. (Guy Gugliotta, “NASA Plans Robotic Fix for Hubble,” Washington Post ...

... .S. House Committee on Science held a hearing to examine options for the HST. Astronauts had serviced the HST four times since its entry into orbit in 1990. NASA had scheduled a ... of the 21st century, testified that his committee had identified the servicing mission to the HST as a priority for NASA's space program, but only if the cost of the ...

... of the University of British Columbia , and his team of scientists, had used NASA’s HST to observe faint light from white dwarf stars in the cluster NGC 6397. Astronomers often ... of a birthday candle on the Moon would appear to an observer on Earth. The HST images also revealed that the dimmest white dwarf stars in NGC 6397 have temperatures low ... 06-292, 17 August 2006, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/aug/HQ_06292_HST_globular_clusters.html (accessed 15 March 2010); Harvey B. Richer et al., “Probing the Faintest ...

... 16 objects, possibly the most distant planets ever observed by the HST . Scientists believed that the objects were extrasolar planets—planets located outside of Earth’s solar ... only two of the planets. Therefore, they designated the objects as “candidate” extrasolar planets. The HST data also revealed that five of the newly discovered planets were Ultra-Short-Period Planets ...

... team of astronomers had used data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope ( Hubble Space Telescope HST ) to create the first three-dimensional map of the distribution of dark matter in the ... grown and clustered over billions of years. The research team had focused Hubble Space Telescope HST ’s camera on an area of the sky 2° wide during 600 Hubble Space Telescope HST orbits, the largest investment of viewing time for a single project since the telescope had ...

... , NASA planned to release images from its Great Observatories— Hubble Space Telescope ( Hubble Space Telescope HST ), Spitzer Space Telescope ( SST ), and Chandra X-ray Observatory —to museums, nature centers, planetariums, and ... simultaneously. The selected sites would also display individual images from each observatory. Hubble Space Telescope HST ’s visible-light view of Messier 101, known as the Pinwheel Galaxy, revealed the swirls ...

... . The seven-member crew was on the final servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope HST . STS-125 , also known as Servicing Mission 4, comprised Commander Scott D. Altman , Pilot Gregory ... had captured most of the images of deep space that had made Hubble Space Telescope HST famous. The crew would also attempt repairs of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and ... would succeed. NASA had developed 116 tools specifically for Servicing Mission 4. Hubble Space Telescope HST was located in an orbit 375 miles (603.5 kilometers) above Earth, in a region ...

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