Lesson Plans Astronomy - Hubble Deep Field Academy (Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy) Provides lessons and projects to learn more about the universe through images from the Hubble telescope. 3-00 Astronomy - Hubble Deep Field Academy (Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy) Provides lessons and projects to learn more about the universe through images from the Hubble telescope. 3-00 Materials How Good Is the Hubble Telescope? Papers Black Hole Pulls a Star in Orbit of Galaxy (USA Today - Vergano) "Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have captured evidence of a black hole hurtling through our Milky Way galaxy with gravity so strong it's dragging a star with it." 11-02 Hubble Constant for Size and Age of Universe (AmericanScientist.org - Freedman) "A newly refined value of Ho, the expansion rate of the universe, may herald a first step toward a new era of 'precision" cosmology.' " "The new result suggests that our universe is about 13 billion years old, give or take a billion years, and it's a value that sits comfortably alongside the 12 billion years estimated for the age of the oldest stars." 12-03 Hubble Deep Field (Discovery.com) Provides faint images from a tiny sliver of the universe by pointing the Hubble Telescope in the same place for 10 days. "By studying Hubble deep field, scientists hope to answer many questions about the number, evolution, and ultimate fate of galaxies in the universe." 3-02 Hubble Deep Field (Discovery.com) Provides faint images from a tiny sliver of the universe by pointing the Hubble Telescope in the same place for 10 days. "By studying Hubble deep field, scientists hope to answer many questions about the number, evolution, and ultimate fate of galaxies in the universe." 3-02 Hubble Space Telescope Gets Final Upgrade (MSNBC News) "When astronauts from the shuttle Atlantis open up the Hubble Space Telescope for its final extreme makeover, much of the work will be aimed at fixing what's been ailing the world's premier orbiting observatory. It'll get fresh batteries and brand-new gyros, and if all goes well, Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph will be back in full working order for the first time in years." "But this is not just a fix-up mission. Two new instruments are due to be swapped into the mix, and those enhancements should give Hubble superpowers it never had before: for example, three-in-one vision that spans the spectrum from ultraviolet to infrared, and the ability to make out the cosmic cobwebs that stretch out between galaxies." 05-09 Hubble Space Telescope Images (BBC) Provides dramatic new images from the repaired Hubble telescope. 1-00 Hubble Space Telescope Upgraded (CNN) Provides some details of the equipment on Hubble that was replace. 3-02 Hubble Telescope Fixed and Improved (BBC News) "Astronomers are celebrating the release of remarkable new images from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)." Some of the pictures are included in the article. Hubble discoveries to date include: "In what was a prime mission objective, Hubble fixed the Universe's age at about 13.7 billion years - later confirmed by other instruments" "Hubble's ability to detect faint supernovae contributed to the discovery that the expansion rate of the Universe is accelerating" "Hubble was one of two telescopes to make the first direct images of planets orbiting another star - historic images made public last November" "Hubble provided the first direct measurements of the three-dimensional distribution of dark matter in space" "Hubble has shown that monster black holes, with masses millions to billions times the mass of our Sun, inhabit the centres of most galaxies" 09-09 Hubble, Edwin (Discovery.com) Provides a picture and a short biography of the astronomer. 3-02 Track Satellites, Hubble Telescope and Mir (J-Track) Provides the location of satellites, the Hubble telescope, Mir space station and other objects orbiting in space. Also see which parts of the earth have daylight.

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