<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Holiday wishes from the Hubble Space Telescope : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/"/><tagline>Holiday wishes from the Hubble Space Telescope : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2010, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2010-03-22T04:54:11+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Holiday wishes from the Hubble Space Telescope]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43181/1/" /><id>43181</id><summary><![CDATA[Holiday wishes from the Hubble Space Telescope]]></summary><issued>2007-12-03T19:48:17+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-03T19:48:17+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Messier 74, also called NGC 628, is a stunning example of a 'grand-design' spiral galaxy that is viewed by Earth observers nearly face-on. Its perfectly symmetrical spiral arms emanate from the central nucleus and are dotted with clusters of young blue stars.]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</script></div><entry><title><![CDATA[Hubble Photographs Grand Design Spiral Galaxy M81]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/22188/1/" /><id>22188</id><summary><![CDATA[Hubble Photographs Grand Design Spiral Galaxy M81]]></summary><issued>2007-05-31T00:45:04+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-31T00:45:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The sharpest image ever taken of the large grand design spiral galaxy Messier 81 is being released. The image, constructed from a series of images taken with NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is among the largest ever released. Messier 81 is one of the brightest galaxies that can be seen from the Earth.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hubble Spies Shells of Sparkling Stars Around Quasar]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39633/1/" /><id>39633</id><summary><![CDATA[Hubble Spies Shells of Sparkling Stars Around Quasar]]></summary><issued>2007-10-26T06:13:08+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-26T06:13:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[What has appeared as a mild-mannered elliptical galaxy in previous studies is revealing its wild side in new images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble photos show shells of stars around a bright quasar, known as MC2 1635+119, which dominates the center of the galaxy. The shells' presence indicates a titanic clash with another galaxy in the relatively recent past.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Herschel yields new galaxy image]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/126322/1/" /><id>126322</id><summary><![CDATA[Herschel yields new galaxy image]]></summary><issued>2009-07-01T11:09:30+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-01T11:09:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The European Space Agency (Esa) has released a stunning image of the spiral galaxy M51, otherwise known as the Whirlpool Galaxy.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Cosmic blue blobs discovered]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/46481/1/" /><id>46481</id><summary><![CDATA[Cosmic blue blobs discovered]]></summary><issued>2008-01-09T01:02:04+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-09T01:02:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Brilliant blue blobs weighing tens of thousands of solar masses have been found lurking in the seemingly barren expanse of intergalactic space. The &quot;eyes&quot; of the Hubble Space Telescope resolved the objects, which appear to be clusters of stars born in the swirls and eddies of a galactic smashup some 200 million years ago.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hubble: From cosmic joke to cherished eye in space ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/113197/1/" /><id>113197</id><summary><![CDATA[Hubble: From cosmic joke to cherished eye in space ]]></summary><issued>2009-05-10T15:41:22+01:00</issued><modified>2009-05-10T15:41:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[After its launch into space in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was stuck with blurry vision because its mirror wasn't quite right. It was the butt of jokes by late night comics; an editorial cartoon said its designer was Mr. Magoo, a nearsighted cartoon character. It seemed like a massively overbudget screw-up.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Galaxies give birth to stars on cosmic highways]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/48833/1/" /><id>48833</id><summary><![CDATA[Galaxies give birth to stars on cosmic highways]]></summary><issued>2008-01-29T20:59:52+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-29T20:59:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Galaxies tend to give birth to their stars on the road, while travelling down intergalactic highways towards cosmic cities called galaxy clusters, new Spitzer Space Telescope observations reveal. Galaxies in relatively empty regions of the universe flock towards densely populated galaxy clusters, attracted there by the clusters' gravity.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hubble telescope fails; NASA to delay shuttle]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/78335/1/" /><id>78335</id><summary><![CDATA[Hubble telescope fails; NASA to delay shuttle]]></summary><issued>2008-10-01T00:29:10+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-01T00:29:10+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The failure of the command and data-handling system for Hubble's science instruments means the telescope is unable to capture and beam down the data needed to produce its stunning deep space images.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Space telescope unveils hidden cosmic giant]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44294/1/" /><id>44294</id><summary><![CDATA[Space telescope unveils hidden cosmic giant]]></summary><issued>2007-12-15T07:49:40+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-15T07:49:40+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Astronomers from SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research have discovered a new cluster of galaxies, hidden behind a previously identified cluster of galaxies. The recently exposed cosmic giant is apparently just as bright as the first group, but is six times further away. The astronomers made the discovery as part of an international team using the space telescope XMM-Newton.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Flies In A Spider's Web: Galaxy Caught In The Making]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/3065/1/" /><id>3065</id><summary><![CDATA[Flies In A Spider's Web: Galaxy Caught In The Making]]></summary><issued>2006-10-13T22:21:15+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-13T22:21:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Hubble Space Telescope has found a large galaxy 10.6 billion light-years away from Earth that is stuffing itself with smaller galaxies caught like flies in a web of gravity. The galaxy is so far away that astronomers are seeing it as it looked in the early formative years of the Universe, only 2 billion years after the Big Bang.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Thousand-Ruby Galaxy]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/74683/1/" /><id>74683</id><summary><![CDATA[The Thousand-Ruby Galaxy]]></summary><issued>2008-09-03T09:56:11+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-03T09:56:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[ESO's Wide Field Imager has captured the intricate swirls of the spiral galaxy Messier 83, a smaller look-alike of our own Milky Way. Shining with the light of billions of stars and the ruby red glow of hydrogen gas, it is a beautiful example of a barred spiral galaxy, whose shape has led to it being nicknamed the Southern Pinwheel.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Galaxy's spiral arms point in opposite directions]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/46523/1/" /><id>46523</id><summary><![CDATA[Galaxy's spiral arms point in opposite directions]]></summary><issued>2008-01-09T06:57:26+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-09T06:57:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Astronomers are puzzling over a spiral galaxy whose spiral arms are wrapped in opposing directions. The unusual structure may be a lingering scar from a tussle with a smaller galaxy that was ultimately swallowed.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hubble telescope: Solved and Unsolved mysteries]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35258/1/" /><id>35258</id><summary><![CDATA[Hubble telescope: Solved and Unsolved mysteries]]></summary><issued>2007-09-10T23:20:04+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-10T23:20:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Beyond snapping extraordinary pictures of faraway nebulas, the revolutionary Hubble Space Telescope has completely transformed our view of the universe since it was launched in 1990. By capturing the clearest, deepest images of the cosmos ever, Hubble has shed light on some long-standing mysteries perplexing scientists-while uncovering far deeper ones that have yet to be solved.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Astronomers map 'blue whale' of space]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/127546/1/" /><id>127546</id><summary><![CDATA[Astronomers map 'blue whale' of space]]></summary><issued>2009-07-13T01:41:59+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-13T01:41:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Australian astronomers have made the most detailed map yet of a radio galaxy, which could lead to a better understanding of these strange phenomena.<br/><br/>The map of Centaurus A, a galaxy in the Centaurus constellation, covers a segment of sky 200 times the area of the full moon.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ESO's VLT Captures Stunning Image of Spiral Galaxy]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41324/1/" /><id>41324</id><summary><![CDATA[ESO's VLT Captures Stunning Image of Spiral Galaxy]]></summary><issued>2007-11-11T07:19:51+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-11T07:19:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[During his visit to ESO's Very Large Telescope at Paranal, the European Commissioner for Science and Research, Janez Potocnik, participated in an observing sequence and took images of a beautiful spiral galaxy.<br/>The visit took place on 27 October and the Commissioner observed with one of the FORS instruments on Antu, the first 8.2-m Unit Telescope of the VLT.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hubble's Top Ten Discoveries]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39530/1/" /><id>39530</id><summary><![CDATA[Hubble's Top Ten Discoveries]]></summary><issued>2007-10-25T10:18:57+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-25T10:18:57+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A collection of Hubble Space Telescope images shows distant supernovas, the death explosions of massive stars. The top photos show each region before the explosion. The bottom row shows the explosions' aftermaths.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Galaxy 'missing link' uncovered]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/82797/1/" /><id>82797</id><summary><![CDATA[Galaxy 'missing link' uncovered]]></summary><issued>2008-11-25T07:31:36+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-25T07:31:36+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Astronomers have identified a type of galaxy that represents a &quot;missing link&quot; in our understanding of the Universe. Spiral and elliptical galaxies used to be known exclusively as &quot;blue&quot; and &quot;red&quot;, respectively. But two studies show that one in five galaxies is a red spiral.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Space telescope makes startling discovery]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/18805/1/" /><id>18805</id><summary><![CDATA[Space telescope makes startling discovery]]></summary><issued>2007-05-02T20:42:00+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-02T20:42:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Hubble Space Telescope has provided evidence representing a major upset for conventional theories that propose a single period for star birth.  The European Space Agency said the telescope, observing globular cluster NGC 2808, has shown three separate generations of stars formed early in the cluster's life.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hubble: the last hurrah]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/112533/1/" /><id>112533</id><summary><![CDATA[Hubble: the last hurrah]]></summary><issued>2009-05-07T17:26:44+01:00</issued><modified>2009-05-07T17:26:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[On 11 May, the space shuttle Atlantis will head to the Hubble Space Telescope for a fifth and final servicing mission. With six batteries, six gyroscopes and a data interface system to be installed by astronauts, the telescope should be ready to perform for at least another five years.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Largest ever survey of very distant galaxy clusters completed]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/126427/1/" /><id>126427</id><summary><![CDATA[Largest ever survey of very distant galaxy clusters completed]]></summary><issued>2009-07-02T02:18:50+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-02T02:18:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An international team of researchers led by a UC Riverside astronomer has completed the largest ever survey designed to find very distant clusters of galaxies. Named the Spitzer Adaptation of the Red-sequence Cluster Survey, &quot;SpARCS&quot; detects galaxy clusters using deep ground-based optical observations from the CTIO 4m and CFHT 3.6m telescopes, combined with Spitzer Space Telescope infrared observations.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Exploding star in NGC 2397]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/56536/1/" /><id>56536</id><summary><![CDATA[Exploding star in NGC 2397]]></summary><issued>2008-03-31T22:55:36+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-31T22:55:36+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The latest image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a sharp view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2397. This image also shows a rare Hubble view of the early stages of a supernova - SN 2006bc, discovered in March 2006.]]></content></entry></feed>