http://secretsofspace.com/hubble-space-telescope/ Exploring planets, stars, galaxies, astronomy, the universe and space secrets Mon, 07 Mar 2016 12:17:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.2 http://secretsofspace.com/hubble-space-telescope/#comment-2206 Mon, 19 May 2014 14:03:44 +0000 http://secretsofspace.com/?p=228#comment-2206 […] remnant is within the plane of our Milky Way galaxy and is 2,600 light-years away. Data from Hubble allowed astronomers to directly compare the actual structure of the shock with their theoretical […]

]]> http://secretsofspace.com/hubble-space-telescope/#comment-348 Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:13:59 +0000 http://secretsofspace.com/?p=228#comment-348 […] Hubble Space Telescope‘s Wide Field planetary camera tool these series of pictures of the comet between 1995 and 1996. They chronicle changes in the evolution of the nucleus of Comet Hale-Bopp as it moved closer to the sun and was hence warmed by it. Hale-Bopp passed perihelion on April 1, 1997 and was dubbed the Great Comet of 1997. Its lengthy period of visibility and extensive coverage in the media made Hale-Bopp one of the most-observed and talked about comets in history. This lead to all sorts of claims about it, including those associating it with UFOs and people who believed that Comet Hale-Bopp was actually Nibiru or Planet X. […]

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