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Hubble Heritage Celebrates 10 Years

The landmark 10th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's Hubble Heritage Project is being celebrated with a 'landscape' image from the cosmos. Cutting across a nearby star-forming region, called NGC 3324, are the "hills and valleys" of gas and dust displayed in intricate detail. Set amid a backdrop of soft, glowing blue light are wispy tendrils of gas as well as dark trunks of dust that are light-years in height. NGC 3324 is located in the constellation Carina, about 7,200 light-years away from Earth. This image is a composite of data taken with two of Hubble's science instruments. Data taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) in 2006 isolated light emitted by hydrogen. More recent data, taken in 2008 with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), isolated light emitted by sulfur and oxygen gas.

Hubble's 486 Backup Computer Wakes Up For the First Time Since 1990

Prospects were starting to look pretty grim for the venerable Hubble telescope. Following a communications breakdown, the Hubble team postponed their scheduled repair mission from October 14th until this coming February, at the earliest. Until then, the Hubble's usable data transmission abilities were dependent on one thing: the successfully booting of a 486 backup system, last powered on before the Hubble Launch over 18 years ago. Well, the Hubble team has now reported that the dusty old computer seems like it's working just fine.

SPACENASA's Remote Hubble Fix Does the Trick

NASA has scored a success with its remote repair of the Hubble Space Telescope: The satellite has resumed beaming down new images. The problems Hubble was experiencing stemmed from an 18-year-old device called a "formatter;" they were solved by booting up the Hubble's alternate formatter -- also 18 years old. In February, astronauts will visit the satellite to physically replace aging hardware.

NASA's Remote Hubble Fix Does the Trick

NASA has scored a success with its remote repair of the Hubble Space Telescope: The satellite has resumed beaming down new images. The problems Hubble was experiencing stemmed from an 18-year-old device called a "formatter;" they were solved by booting up the Hubble's alternate formatter -- also 18 years old. In February, astronauts will visit the satellite to physically replace aging hardware.

NASA to Discuss Hubble Anomaly and Servicing Mission Launch Delay

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 6 p.m. EDT today to discuss a significant Hubble Space Telescope anomaly that occurred this weekend affecting the storage and transmittal of science data to Earth. Fixing the problem will delay next month's space shuttle Atlantis' Hubble servicing mission. The briefing participants are: - Ed Weiler, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington - John Shannon, Shuttle Program manager at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston - Preston Burch, Hubble manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. To participate in the teleconference, reporters in the U.S. should call 1-800-369-6087 and use the pass code Hubble.

Heritage Weekend Celebrates Half Billion HLF Investment In Scotland

The Heritage Lottery Fund is marking the organisation’s half billion pound investment in 2500 projects across Scotland with a Heritage Weekend running from September 20-21 2008.

Hubble's Heritage

Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Acknowledgment: N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley)

Prison court sentences blogger to 20 years, poet to two years

Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association are appalled by the combined sentence of 20 years and six months in prison that a special court in Insein prison passed today on a young blogger, Nay Phone Latt. A poet, Saw Wai, was sentenced to two years in prison for a poem containing a coded criticism of Gen. Than She, the head of the military junta.

Burma - Prison court sentences blogger to 20 years, poet to two years

MONTREAL, Nov. 10 /CNW Telbec/ - Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association are appalled by the combined sentence of 20 years and six months in prison that a special court in Insein prison passed today on a young blogger, Nay Phone Latt. A poet, Saw Wai, was sentenced to two years in prison for a poem containing a coded criticism of Gen. Than She, the head of the military junta.

Hubble Finds Unidentified Object In Space

Gizmodo is reporting that the Hubble space telescope has found a new unidentified object in the middle of nowhere. Some are even suggesting that this could be a new class of object. Of course, without actually understanding more about it, the speculation seems a bit wild. "The object also appeared out of nowhere. It just wasn't there before. In fact, they don't even know where it is exactly located because it didn't behave like anything they know. Apparently, it can't be closer than 130 light-years but it can be as far as 11 billion light-years away. It's not in any known galaxy either. And they have ruled out a supernova too. It's something that they have never encountered before. In other words: they don't have a single clue about where or what the heck this thing is.

Hubble telescope working, taking photos again

This undated handout photo provided by NASA, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies called Arp 147. The Hubble Space Telescope is working again, taking stunning cosmic photos after a one-month breakdown. The Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore said the $10 billion telescope is as good as it was before a shutdown in late September. That glitch scotched plans for spacewalking astronauts to upgrade the telescope this month. (AP Photo/NASA)

Hubble Up and Running, With a Picture to Prove It

After an electrical malfunction caused it to go dormant a month ago, the Hubble Space Telescope is back in business. But the space shuttle mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble has been pushed back again, NASA officials said Thursday. To show this week that the orbiting eye still has the same chops as ever, astronomers from the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore used Hubble�s wide-field planetary camera 2 to record this image

Hubble telescope fails; NASA to delay shuttle

"NASA said Monday that it is delaying its mission to the Hubble Space Telescope until next year because of a serious breakdown of the observatory in orbit. The Atlantis team was scheduled to blast off October 14 to make other repairs and upgrades on the Hubble. Space shuttle Atlantis had been scheduled to blast off in just two weeks, but an unexpected problem with the Hubble appeared Saturday night, when the telescope stopped sending science data. That potentially means a new repair issue for the astronauts to confront, one they haven't trained for and never anticipated."

Hubble servicing mission delayed

7PM UPDATE:� NASA just held a teleconference for reporters to discuss the Hubble mission delay.� The basic facts we gave you earlier in the day still hold up.� The part that has failed is called the Control Unit/Science Data Formatter.� There is a replacement part housed at the Goddard Space Flight Center, where Hubble operations are based.� The Hubble team will be putting that part through a series of tests to make sure it is operational and ready to fly, and they say they are confident it will pass.� � If all goes as planned, Atlantis could be ready to fly by mid-February.

Hubble spots a star-circling planet

This image, taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the newly discovered planet, Fomalhaut b, orbiting its parent star, Fomalhaut, in a release on November 13, 2008. The small white box at lower right pinpoints the planet's location. Fomalhaut b has carved a path along the inner edge of a vast, dusty debris ring encircling Fomalhaut that is 34.5 billion kilometres across. Fomalhaut b lies three billion kilometres inside the ring's inner edge and orbits 17 billion kilometres from its star. The inset at bottom right is a composite image showing the planet's position during Hubble observations taken in 2004 and 2006. Astronomers have calculated that Fomalhaut b completes an orbit around its parent star every 872 years.

Hubble Stops Sending Data, Mission On Hold

mknewman writes to tell us that NASA is no longer receiving data from the Hubble Space Telescope, which could possibly delay the shuttle launch planned just two weeks from now. There is a backup system installed which may be used instead of training the astronauts on the installation of the new component, but that would itself leave no fallback option. "NASA is reviewing whether the mission should be delayed a couple of months so that plans can be made to send up a replacement part for the failed component, said NASA spokesman Michael Curie. It would take time to test and qualify the old replacement part and train the astronauts to install it in the telescope, Curie said. NASA also would have to work out new mission details for the astronauts who have trained for two years to carry out five Hubble repair spacewalks.

NASA runs into more trouble with Hubble Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope is backdropped against black space as the Space Shuttle Columbia, with a crew of seven astronauts on board approached in this March 3, 2002 file photo. NASA engineers said they know how to fix the broken Hubble Space Telescope: They have to wake up a backup data-handling system that hasn't been turned on since the telescope launched in 1990. On Wednesday Oct. 15, 2008 NASA will start a complicated remote-control fix of a major glitch that stopped the telescope from capturing and beaming down pictures. Hubble should be able to send stunning astronomy photos back to Earth by Friday, officials said. (AP Photo/NASA, FILE)

NASA sees no quick fix for broken Hubble telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope is backdropped against black space as the Space Shuttle Columbia, with a crew of seven astronauts on board approached in this March 3, 2002 file photo. NASA engineers said they know how to fix the broken Hubble Space Telescope: They have to wake up a backup data-handling system that hasn't been turned on since the telescope launched in 1990. On Wednesday Oct. 15, 2008 NASA will start a complicated remote-control fix of a major glitch that stopped the telescope from capturing and beaming down pictures. Hubble should be able to send stunning astronomy photos back to Earth by Friday, officials said. (AP Photo/NASA, FILE)

World Heritage Sites exhibition on display at the Interior Museum

An exhibition of the works of several world-renowned photographers, titled World Heritage Sites in the USA: A 30th Anniversary Celebration, opened on September 19, 2008, and is scheduled to run until January 9, 2009, at the Interior Museum of the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, DC. Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the inscription of Yellowstone and Mesa Verde National Parks on the World Heritage List, photographs of all the World Heritage sites located within the U.S. will be on display. Highlights include the breathtaking vistas at Grand Canyon, Glacier, Yosemite and the Everglades; archeological remains at Mesa Verde, Cahokia Mounds and Chaco Culture; and the cultural inheritance represented by Monticello, Independence Hall and Taos Pueblo, to name a few.

More problems with Hubble

Two anomalies onboard the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope, which stopped transmitting data on September 27, caused engineers to suspend re-activation of Hubble’s science equipment. Engineers encountered problems following an intricate maneuver to circumvent a piece of failed hardware. Hubble is currently orbiting Earth in a dormant “safe mode” while the malfunctions are assessed.

Looking back: 20 years of patent information

patent_information_featurejpg.jpg This week the EPO is celebrating 10 years of its free online patent search esp@cenet. Launched in 1998 in Paris, the tool is the result of a patent information policy that was implemented at the Office ten years earlier. Here we look back at 20 years of patent information policy at the EPO.

NASA To Repair Hubble By Remote Control

Matt_dk writes "The U.S. space agency NASA says it plans to fix the Hubble Space Telescope by remote control this week. The Hubble stopped beaming information to Earth about two weeks ago, when a data unit on the telescope completely failed. Scientists Tuesday said they will bypass the failed unit and switch to a back-up system to restart the flow of information. The computer glitch forced NASA to postpone a shuttle mission this month to repair the Hubble. That shuttle mission has been postponed until next year."

A Celestial Landscape in Celebration of 10 Years of Stunning Hubble Heritage Images

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NASA looking for next-generation Hubble

Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200,000 light-years away, lies the star cluster NGC 602, which is featured in this stunning Hubble Space Telescope image of the region. Now that Hubble is on its last legs, teams of scientists hired by NASA are proposing� space science missions for the next decade.

Burmese blogger jailed for 20 years

Nay Phone Latt, a 28-year-old Burmese blogger, has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for posting a cartoon of the military leader Than Shwe. His trial was held in a court inside Rangoon's Insein prison. A colleague was sentenced to two years, and another dissident, Saw Wai, also got two years for publishing a poem mocking Than Shwe in the weekly Love Journal. (Sources: AFP/Google/BBC)

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