Kathryn Thornton, a renowned astronaut and physicist, recounts the groundbreaking journey of the first servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993. Her talk dives into the critical ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye! The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an 'arrow' -- a far smaller blue dwarf galaxy -- shot ...
"After a 20-year struggle to place a large, sophisticated optical telescope in orbit the Hubble Space Telescope was finally launched in 1990, though its primary mirror was soon found to be flawed. A ...