NASA is extending its contract with the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy for the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope Science Operations activities at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., for 36 months.
NASA will host a Science Update Thursday, May 31, at 1:00 p.m. EDT to discuss new Hubble Space Telescope observations that allow astronomers to predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our entire galaxy, sun, and solar system.
The archive is named in honor of the United States Senator from Maryland for her career-long achievements and for becoming the longest-serving woman in U.S. Congressional history.
Observations made by Hubble of a special type of supernovae contributed to research on the expansion of the universe that was honored with the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Thanks in part to the Hubble Space Telescope, we know the universe is 13.7 billion years old.
Nearly all galaxies may harbor supermassive black holes.
The Hubble Space Telescope has helped scientists determine the process of how planets are born.
The Hubble Space Telescope detected the first organic molecule discovered on a planet outside our solar system.
The Hubble Space Telescope detected a distant supernova that suggests the universe only recently began speeding up.
Hubble has found three moons around dwarf planet Pluto.
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