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Hubblecast 21 Special: From silver to silicon
Observing the Universe through the eyepiece of a telescope is one thing, but recording the observations for posterity is something quite different...
Hubblecast 20 Special: Technology to the rescue
Progress in telescopic astronomy would have come to a grinding halt in the second half of the twentieth century if it weren?t for the digital revolution...
Hubblecast 18: Magnetic monster
The Hubble Space Telescope has solved a long-standing puzzle by resolving giant but delicate filaments shaped by a strong magnetic field around the active galaxy NGC 1275...
Hubblecast 17 Special: New views of the skies
It has been 400 years since Galileo Galilei first walked out into a field and trained his telescope upon the heavens...
Hubblecast 1
A few words about space in general
Hubblecast 15: Black hole in Omega Centauri
For astronomers, Omega Centauri has been an outcast amongst globular clusters for a long time...
Hubblecast 14: First organic molecule on extrasolar planet
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in a planet orbiting another star...
Murk on a monster planet
Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have found the first clear evidence of high altitude haze or clouds in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet...
Hubblecast 05: Hubble finds ring of dark matter
An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a ghostly ring of dark matter formed long ago during a colossal collision between two galaxy clusters...