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...“The instrument will image a large swath of the distant universe with almost the fine resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope, observing more of the universe in one day than Hubble [has done] in 25 years...
...“Our galaxy is a beautiful melting pot of stars,” said Alejandra Recio-Blanco of the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur and a member of the Gaia collaboration....
...I’d died and gone to Top Gear heaven....
...The hubble-bubble of a “rainbird”, the white-browed coucal, woke me up, its voice falling and rising, calling in my ear like an alarm clock....
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...Hubble is also the author of a book called “How the euro dies”. No party line there!...
...Until then, Bakken heartland towns such as Williston and Watford City would struggle, said Mr Hubble....
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...“Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention” by Kathryn D Sullivan is published by MIT Press on November 19 Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...The late, great Stephen Hawking reflected that “if I had a time machine, I’d visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens”....
...The Hubble telescope’s successors, with oversize mirrors assembled in zero gravity, will further expand our vision of exoplanets, stars, galaxies and the wider cosmos....
...You'd have to live underground. So the moment we land on Mars, people who say, now I wonder if we can get to the moons of Jupiter. I wonder if we can get to the moons of Saturn and so on....
...I don’t know if we’d started six months earlier or six months later we’d have been able to do what we did.”...
...This is why I’d come. I’m attracted to extreme locations....
...In a separate move, Wonga’s legal vice president Justin Hubble, who joined the firm in early 2014, has left the company after less than a year in the role....
...Using the Hubble Space Telescope, Nasa has been able to observe the Hubble Deep Field, an image of a small region of the constellation Ursa Major that reveals thousands of other galaxies....
...Though, feel free to read about the Hubble Bubble theory here. What we probably should be referring to is Hubble’s flow, the rate at which expansion of the universe occurs....
...Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was found in October....
...The discovery was made with three telescopes – Hubble and Spitzer in space, and Keck on Hawaii. The international observing team used the “gravitational lensing” effect....
...I have visited souks from Istanbul to Marrakech but this was the most hassle-free experience I’d had....
...“I remember going to an Expo as a kid and telling my mum she’d never have to vacuum again,” he recalls. “The space age offered that utopian dream....
...At that speed they’d have missed their regatta, so it doesn’t make sense.”...
...“If I was in Australia right now,” he says, “I’d feel like I’d left in the middle of the battle.” For Carlos, that battle – the election – was personal....
...Seen/Unseen: Art, Science, and Intuition From Leonardo to the Hubble Telescope by Martin Kemp Oxford University Press ₤25, 368 pages FT bookshop price: ₤20 Reading this book is like standing in the literary...
...I’ve got a day job working on a new space telescope - the successor to the Hubble - and frustratingly I was needed to monitor overnight testing....
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