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The Hubble telescope just snapped a picture of an emoji. Seriously. – Video

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We #39;re seeing emoji everywhere these days! You probably have a friend who sends entire text messages made of nothing but emoji faces. Now even the Hubble telescope is spotting them in distant...

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Hubble photo of a star can help scientists study how planets are born

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The Hubble telescope has already taken a picture of the Beta Pictoris, a 20-million-year-old star surrounded by a large disk of dust and gas located 63.4 light years from our solar system, back in 1997. But in 2009, scientists discovered a giant planet orbiting that star once every 18 to 20 years -- the first planet they've ever seen that's embedded in a debris disk. So in 2012, they used the Hubble again to take a clearer picture of the star in visible light, which they've just released to the public. The image reveals that the disk has barely changed since 1997 and that the giant planet's gravity has distorted its inner part.

Due to this debris disk, the Beta Pictoris is a great example of what a young solar system looks like. All those rocks and gas, which are also the biggest source of interstellar meteoroids in our system, could be forming more new planets, and thus could lead to new insight on how planets are born.

[Image Credit: NASA, ESA, University of Arizona]

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The Hubble Telescope Legacy – 25th Anniversary – SUBTITLED – Video

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Galaxy merger caught by Hubble telescope

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NGC 7714 is a spiral galaxy 100 million light-years from Earth.

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A spiral galaxy gets twisted out of shape after coming too close to a cosmic neighbor in a gorgeous photo captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

The spiral galaxy, known as NGC 7714, lies about 100 million light-years from Earth. Between 100 million and 200 million years ago, NGC 7714 drifted too close to a smaller, neighboring galaxy called NGC 7715. The resulting galaxy merger has been violent and dramatic, changing the structure and shape of both NGC 7714 and NGC 7715, researchers said. Scientists used the Hubble observations to create a stunning video tour of the galaxy merger.

"Tell-tale signs of this brutality can be seen in NGC 7714's strangely shaped arms, and in the smoky golden haze that stretches out from the galactic center," European Space Agency (ESA) officials wrote in a description of the new image. (Hubble is a collaborative mission involving NASA and ESA.)

The merger has also created a bridge between the galaxies, which allows gas and other materials from the smaller NGC 7715 to travel into the larger NGC 7714.

The influx of new material has spurred bursts of star formation in NGC 7714, ESA officials said. In the Hubble image, the majority of starbirth activity can be seen at the bright center of the galaxy, although new stars are forming throughout NGC 7714.

Scientists have named the NGC 7714/NGC 7715 pair Arp 248.

NGC 7714 is classified as a Wolf-Rayet starburst galaxy. Most of its newborn stars are of the Wolf-Rayet type, which are big, hot and bright. At birth, Wolf-Rayet stars are dozens of times more massive than the sun, but powerful winds quickly carry away most of their material.

The Hubble Space Telescope launched in April 1990 aboard the space shuttle Discovery and was repaired or upgraded by astronauts on five different servicing missions between 1993 and 2009. The iconic instrument's observations have helped revolutionize astronomers' understanding of the cosmos.

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Hubble telescope spots space 'smiley'

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(MENAFN - Gulf Times) The Hubble space telescope has spotted what resembles a "smiley" in deep space.

An image published by the US space agency Nasa and its European counterpart ESA, operators of the low-Earth-orbit telescope, shows "two orange eyes and a white button nose" along with arcs of light that look like a smile and partial contours of a face.

According to the space agencies, the "eyes" of the happy face are very bright galaxies in a galaxy cluster known as SDSS J10384849 about 4.5bn light-years from Earth in the Ursa Major constellation and the arcs are caused by an effect known as strong gravitational lensing.

Explained by Einstein's general theory of relativity and first observed nearly a century ago, gravitational lensing is the bending of light by the gravitational field of a massive object.

In this special case of the phenomenon, a ring is produced because the light source, a gravitational lens and observer are aligned.

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Galaxy Merger Caught in Stunning Hubble Telescope Photo, Video

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A spiral galaxy gets twisted out of shape after coming too close to a cosmic neighbor in a gorgeous photo captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

The spiral galaxy, known as NGC 7714, lies about 100 million light-years from Earth. Between 100 million and 200 million years ago, NGC 7714 drifted too close to a smaller, neighboring galaxy called NGC 7715. The resulting galaxy merger has been violent and dramatic, changing the structure and shape of both NGC 7714 and NGC 7715, researchers said. Scientists used the Hubble observations to create a stunning video tour of the galaxy merger.

"Tell-tale signs of this brutality can be seen in NGC 7714's strangely shaped arms, and in the smoky golden haze that stretches out from the galactic center," European Space Agency (ESA) officials wrote in a description of the new image. (Hubble is a collaborative mission involving NASA and ESA.)

The merger has also created a bridge between the galaxies, which allows gas and other materials from the smaller NGC 7715 to travel into the larger NGC 7714.

The influx of new material has spurred bursts of star formation in NGC 7714, ESA officials said. In the Hubble image, the majority of starbirth activity can be seen at the bright center of the galaxy, although new stars are forming throughout NGC 7714.

Scientists have named the NGC 7714/NGC 7715 pair Arp 248.

NGC 7714 is classified as a Wolf-Rayet starburst galaxy. Most of its newborn stars are of the Wolf-Rayet type, which are big, hot and bright. At birth, Wolf-Rayet stars are dozens of times more massive than the sun, but powerful winds quickly carry away most of their material.

The Hubble Space Telescope launched in April 1990 aboard the space shuttle Discovery and was repaired or upgraded by astronauts on five different servicing missions between 1993 and 2009. The iconic instrument's observations have helped revolutionize astronomers' understanding of the cosmos.

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Chicago-born man to be inducted into Astronaut Hall of Fame

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CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) -

A retired NASA astronaut who was born in Chicago and worked on the Hubble Telescope will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in May, according to a statement from the Kennedy Space Center.

John H. Grunsfeld, Ph.D, was born in Chicago and graduated from Highland Park High School in the northern suburb in 1976, according to his astronaut bio on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration website.

Grunsfeld then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a bachelor of science degree in physics in 1980; then attended the University of Chicago, where he received a master of science degree and a doctor of philosophy degree in physics, according to NASA.

He was selected as a NASA astronaut in 1992 and logged more than 58 days in space on five separate flights, according to the statement. On his last three missions, Grunsfeld worked to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

Grunsfeld, who is married with two children, retired from NASA in December 2009 to become the Deputy Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute and a professor at Johns Hopkins University, according to the statement.

He rejoined NASA in 2012 and is currently the Associate Administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at the agency's Washington, D.C. headquarters. His father still lives in Highland Park.

Grunsfeld, along with Steven Lindsey, Kent Rominger, and M. Rhea Seddon, M.D., will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30.

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