This year marks 25 years of amazing images and science from the Hubble Space Telescope.  To celebrate, we’ve assemble 25 images that represent both the beauty of the universe captured by Hubble and the important science realized by this wonderful telescope orbiting over our heads.

Please join +Tony Darnell, Dr +Carol Christian and +Scott Lewis  as they discuss these images.

25th Anniversary Page:
http://hubble25th.org

Ode to Hubble Video Contest:
http://spacetelescope.org/announcements/ann1505/

#Hubble25 #Hubble #HubbleHangout  

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Beta Pictoris remains the only directly imaged debris disk that has a giant planet (discovered in 2009) with an orbital period short enough (estimated to be between 18 and 22 years) that astronomers can see large motion in just a few years. This allows scientists to study how the Beta Pictoris disk is distorted by the presence of a massive planet embedded within the disk.

Please join +Tony Darnell, Dr. +Carol Christian and +Scott Lewis as they discuss new visible-light Hubble images that traces the disk in closer to the star to within about 650 million miles of the star with the astronomers who made the observations.

Read more here:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/06/

25th Anniversary Page:
http://hubble25th.org

Ode to Hubble Video Contest:
http://spacetelescope.org/announcements/ann1505/

#Hubble25 #Hubble #HubbleHangout  

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The Hubble Space Telescope is named after one of the preeminent astronomers of the last century, Edwin Hubble. Among his notable discoveries is that the universe we live in is both enormous and expanding. This episode takes us on a journey through the life and times of the person whose name graces one of the most significant scientific instruments ever built.

Hypergiant stars are among the largest and most luminous in the universe and when they die, they create an enormous explosion, known as hypernovae.  Astronomers using the +Hubble Space Telescope have observed several supernovae in galaxies NGC 266 and NGC 7714 and believe them to be caused by the deaths of these hypergiant stars.

Please join +Tony Darnell Dr. +Carol Christian and +Scott Lewis as they explore the realm of hypergiant stars and discuss recent Hubble observations of SN 2005gl and others.

25th Anniversary Page:
http://hubble25th.org

Ode to Hubble Video Contest:
http://spacetelescope.org/announcements/ann1505/

#Hubble25 #Hubble #HubbleHangout  

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Astronomers using NASA’s  Hubble Space Telescope have spotted for the first time a distant supernova split into four images. The multiple images of the exploding star are caused by the powerful gravity of a foreground elliptical galaxy embedded in a massive cluster of galaxies.
This unique observation will help astronomers refine their estimates of the amount and distribution of dark matter in the lensing galaxy and cluster. Dark matter cannot be seen directly but is believed to make up most of the universe’s mass.

These observations were taken as part of the Frontier Fields Survey.

Please join +Tony Darnell Dr.+Carol Christian and +Scott Lewis as they discuss these exciting observations with members of the Frontier Fields Team.

Press Release: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/08 

Frontier Fields Blog:
http://FrontierFields.org

25th Anniversary Page:
http://hubble25th.org

Ode to Hubble Video Contest:
http://spacetelescope.org/announcements/ann1505/

#Hubble25 #Hubble #HubbleHangout  

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Insights into the Interplay of Science & Art
Dario Robleto & Frank Summers

Houston artist Dario Robleto’s “Setlists for a Setting Sun” is on view in the Contemporary Wing of the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) through March 29, 2015. This exhibition weaves together the histories of recorded light and sound in a body of poetic sculptures, prints, and cut-paper works. The show debuts three works inspired in part by the BMA’s proximity to the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI).

As a special collaboration between these two Baltmore institutions, Robleto will present a BMA Artist Talk as part of the STScI Public Lecture Series. He will delve into the cross-pollination of art and science – including the ways in which imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope, celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2015, has influenced Robleto and the works featured in the exhibition. In counterpoint, STScI astronomer Frank Summers will explore the scientific properties of light, space, and time that not only underscore the artistic depth, but also expose the mind-bending realities within Einstein’s theory of relativity.

Hosted by Kristen Hileman, BMA Curator of Contemporary Art. Recorded live on March 3, 2015 at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD, USA

For more information: http://hubblesite.org/about_us/public_talks/

Nearly 500 million miles from the Sun lies a moon orbiting Jupiter that is slightly larger than the planet Mercury and may contain more water than all of Earth’s oceans. Temperatures are so cold, though, that water on the surface freezes as hard as rock and the ocean lies roughly 100 miles below the crust. Nevertheless where there is water there could be life as we know it.

Identifying liquid water on other worlds – big or small – is crucial in the search for habitable planets beyond Earth. Though the presence of an ocean on Ganymede has been long-predicted based on theoretical models, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope found the best circumstantial evidence for it. Hubble was used to watch aurorae glowing above the moon’s icy surface. The aurorae are tied the moon’s magnetic field which descends right down to the core of Ganymede. A saline ocean would influence the dynamics of the magnetic field as it interacts with Jupiter’s own immense magnetic field that engulfs Ganymede.

Because telescopes can’t look inside planets or moons, tracing the magnetic field through aurorae is a unique way to probe the interior of another world.

Read more here:
http://hubblesite.org/news/2015/09

Please join +Tony Darnell Dr. +Carol Christian and +Scott Lewis as they discuss these observations with the science team.
25th Anniversary Page:
http://hubble25th.org

Final moments for submissions to +European Space Agency, ESA’s #OdeToHubble  competitions can be found here: http://www.spacetelescope.org/Hubble25/odetohubble/ 

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It’s that time again, time for +Tony Darnell and Dr.+Frank Summers  to get together and fill you in on all the latest science and happenings from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Hope you can all make it, please bring your questions and comments!

Ode to Hubble Video Contest:
http://spacetelescope.org/announcements/ann1505/

Hubble Mania:
http://hubble25th.org/go/HubbleMania

Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute and the
Johns Hopkins University, both in Baltimore, Maryland, have
created a new master catalog of astronomical objects called
the Hubble Source Catalog. The catalog provides one-stop
shopping for measurements of objects observed with NASA’s
Hubble Space Telescope.

Hubble has amassed a rich legacy of images and other
scientific data over its 25 years of exploring the universe.
All of the images are stored in the computer-based Barbara A.
Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST), which
astronomers use for their research. The archive is
bursting with more than a million images, which contain
roughly 100 million small sources ranging from distant
galaxies to compact star clusters to individual stars. For
astronomers, however, a major challenge is the difficulty
involved with sifting through the archival gold mine to
collect the data they want to analyze. The Hubble Source
Catalog now allows astronomers to perform a computer
search for characteristics of these sources, receiving
information within seconds or minutes.

The Hubble Source Catalog is a database from which astronomers
can obtain the Hubble measurements of specific astronomical
objects they want to investigate. A query to this database
can take just seconds or minutes, while previously it might
have required a few months of hard work by searching
separate files throughout the archive. This capability
promises to open the door to exciting new areas of research
with Hubble that otherwise might have been too cumbersome
to tackle.
Read more here:
http://hubblesite.org/news/2015/07

Please join +Tony Darnell Dr.+Carol Christian and +Scott Lewis as they discuss the new release of this powerful database with astronomers from the Space Telescope Science Institute.

25th Anniversary Page:
http://hubble25th.org

Final moments for submissions to +European Space Agency, ESA’s#OdeToHubble  competitions can be found here: http://www.spacetelescope.org/Hubble25/odetohubble/ 

#Hubble25 #Hubble #HubbleHangout  

Bring your questions and comments and we’ll read them on air throughout the hangout!

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