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“The variety of galaxies we see is amazing. In time these Hubble data could turn out to be the double helix of galaxy formation. We are clearly seeing some of the galaxies as they were more than ten billion years ago, in the process of formation,” said Robert Williams, Director of the Space telescope Science Institute Baltimore, Maryland. “As the images have come up on our screens, we have not been able to keep from wondering if we might somehow be seeing our own origins in all of this. The past ten days have been an unbelievable experience.”

Harry Ferguson, one of the HDF team astronomers added: “One of the great legacies of the Hubble Telescope will be these deep images of the sky showing galaxies to the faintest possible limits with the greatest possible clarity from here out to the very horizon of the universe.”

The term “deep” in an astronomical sense means looking at the faintest objects in the universe. Because the most distant objects are also among the dimmest, the image is the equivalent of using a “time machine” to look into the past to witness the early formation of galaxies, perhaps less than one billion years after the universe’s birth in the Big Bang.

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Hubblecast 22: Hubble Space Telescope Directly Observes Exoplanet Orbiting Fomalhaut.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space telescope has discovered an extrasolar planet, for the first time using direct visible-light imaging. The strange world is far-flung from its parent star, is surrounded by a colossal belt of gas and dust, and may even have rings more impressive than Saturn’s.

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- ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)
- Visual design & Editing: Martin Kornmesser
- Animations: Martin Kornmesser & Luis Calçada
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- Written by: Lee Pullen & Lars Lindberg Christensen
- Host: Dr. J
- Narration: Bob Fosbury
- Cinematography: Peter Rixner
- Music: movetwo
- Footage and photos: A. Fujii, Digitized Sky Survey 2, NASA, ESA, and P. Kalas (University of California, Berkeley). Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
- Directed by: Lars Lindberg Christensen

Dr. J is a German astronomer at the ESO. His scientific interests are in cosmology, particularly on galaxy evolution and quasars. Dr. J’s real name is Joe Liske and he has a PhD in astronomy.

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Last week we did a story on the Hubble telescope and the upcoming and final servicing mission to fix it up. The James Webb Space Telescope was mentioned, but not many details were given. This video found on the NASA site shows what is new with JWST, why it is better than the Hubble and a bit of what we can expect. The telescope is still being built and it is possible it will be delayed a bit, but JWST is scheduled to fly no earlier than 2013, so we have a bit of time to admire the images from Hubble a bit longer.

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From its low orbit just 600 km (373 mi) above Earth’s surface, the Hubble Space Telescope is able to observe the universe with incredible clarity. Free from the atmosphere’s turbulent air that blurs incoming light and absorbs infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths, Hubble has taken over 400,000 observations and provided data for thousands of scientific papers.

Since its launch in 1990, Hubble — the only space telescope to gather data in visible, infrared, and ultraviolet wavelengths — has offered a unique and detailed view of the universe. One of the most striking images produced by the telescope was the Hubble Deep Field (HDF). At the time of its release in 1996, HDF was the deepest optical view of the universe, showing the farthest and youngest galaxies ever to be seen. The image was taken of a tiny portion of sky and displays over 1,500 galaxies with a wide range of shapes and sizes.

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Part 7 in a series of videos produced by the ESA for public distribution about the Hubble Space telescope and much more.

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Part 9 1/2 in a series of videos produced by the ESA for public distribution about the Hubble Space Telescope and much more.

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Part 9 in a series of videos produced by the ESA for public distribution about the Hubble Space telescope and much more.

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This animation reveals the topography and beauty of the Orion Nebula like never before. Based on data obtained by the Hubble Space telescope, all of the gas clouds, stars, and proplyds are positioned as accurately as possible. The animation ends with a close-up examination of HST-10, where astronomers see dust grains clumping in the early stages of forming planets. At the same time, HST-10′s gaseous envelope is being being burned away by the Trapezium stars in the nebula’s center. This is an artist’s conception, not a view from the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Part 6 in a series of videos produced by the ESA for public distribution about the Hubble Space telescope and much more.

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