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In the pre-dawn hours on Dec. 2, 1993, the space shuttle Endeavour launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a critical mission to repair NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble was designed to be serviced in space with components that astronauts can slide in and out of place. But prior to launch, no one expected […]
This huge, ancient galaxy is the last object of its type found by Charles Messier. It's also an oddball, almost perfectly round.
“That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, ‘This is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there.’” -Story Musgrave
Found at the heart of large, ancient galaxies, quasars are supermassive black holes that are so luminous they outshine the sun by as much as 27 trillion times.
Plus, Hubble turns 33, new research on the ISS, and how to gather resources to start a lunar colony.