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Your face, made from from Hubble images
2013-07-19 15:00:00| CNET News.com
Artist Sergio Albiac is creating a crowdsourced series of starry-eyed portraits reconstructing faces out of images from space. [Read more]
Hubble finds new moon around Neptune that Voyager missed!
2013-07-15 20:21:15| CNET News.com
New moon is about one hundred million times fainter than the faintest star you can see with the naked eye. [Read more]
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Hubble discovers the first blue planet outside the Solar System, but it isnt covered in water
2013-07-12 18:45:05| Extremetech
Thanks to NASA's Hubble telescope, planet HD 189733 b has become the first planet outside the Solar System to have its color directly measured -- and, like Earth, it's blue! Unlike our home planet, though, HD 189733 b isn't blue because of liquid water -- the blue color likely comes from clouds in the atmosphere made of molten glass.
Hubble telescope successor may use dead stars to find live planets
2013-04-25 15:32:19| Extremetech
Researchers from Harvard and Tel Aviv Universities published a paper arguing that the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope could be used to look at supposedly "dead" star-systems, and they think that doing so could finally lead us to proof of life elsewhere in the universe.
Hubble captures possible 'comet of the century'
2013-04-24 19:02:16| CNET News.com
NASA's Hubble telescope has snapped some of the first pictures in visible light of Comet ISON, which may become one of the brightest we've ever seen from Earth. [Read more]
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