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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...
...Estimating the Hubble constant partly relies on measuring the distance of faraway astrophysical objects, such as supernovas....
...“Valuers are struggling to understand how to value this — it’s a big unknown area.”...
...That would do away with the need to land on the frozen surface and drill to an unknown depth to reach the ocean that is believed to lie beneath, according to Paul Hertz, director of Nasa’s astrophysics division...
...The remarkable images recorded by the Hubble Space Telescope over the past 25 years will be surpassed by the $8bn James Webb Telescope due for launch in 2018....
...We now have the great radio telescopes and the Hubble space telescope, capable of reaching forward, or back, into dizzying expanses of space and time....
...sailed south-east rather than south-west, it could have come into contact with the Crescent Beaune at the same time and 8.8 nautical miles to the east of the incident between the Pride of Bilbao and the unknown...
...swamped or knocked over the Ouzo; that Michael Hubble did not stop and check on the yacht’s safety....
...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...
...Immediately afterwards it expanded massively, a period of “inflation” driven by forces as yet unknown. Today we believe it is still expanding, driven by a mysterious “dark energy”....
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