To celebrate the occasion, Bad Astronmy takes us on a guided tour through the Carina Nebula. Awesome images.

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"Astronomers at Space Telescope Science Institute just released a new image, and it’s a beauty." New desktop wallpaper here at Velcro City!

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"The main camera for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is out of commission again, but this time, the agency believes it can never be fully revived." Just when they'd made a plan to fix the thin

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"The famous "pillars of creation" – clouds of dust and gas imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, are no more – a supernova blast wave has blown them apart." Life goes on.

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"Astronomers have mapped the cosmic "scaffold" of dark matter upon which stars and galaxies are assembled." Now that is pretty damn cool.

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That's Hubble Space Telescope, by the way, not Hunter S. Thompson - though an image archive of Dr. Gonzo would be pretty cool too. Via Centauri Dreams.

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"Shuttle astronauts will make one final house call to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as part of a mission to extend and improve the observatory's capabilities through 2013." Makes economic se

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"The fate of what some scientists dub “the people's telescope" is again up in the air, as NASA decides soon whether to squeeze in a last astronaut repair mission to extend the life of the Hu

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"...the best observational evidence yet that globular clusters sort out stars according to their mass, governed by a gravitational billiard ball game between stars."

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"A colossal collision between galaxies is seen in greater detail than ever before in an image from the Hubble Space Telescope." Pretty pictures plus big astronomy equals w00t!

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"The Hubble Space Telescope's main camera has been resuscitated after shutting itself down more than two weeks ago." And not a moment too soon; it does some pretty cool stuff, y'know

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" ... the Hubble Space Telescope has weighed in with definitive evidence for the existence of at least one of those worlds, a Jupiter-class gas giant in a 6.9 year orbit around the star."

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Couldn't resist the childish headline ... big old storm on the outer planet, according to Hubble pictures.

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"The main camera on the Hubble Space Telescope has shut down unexpectedly for the second time this year..."

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"Hubble's managers are still investigating the problem, but they are optimistic that they will be able to use the camera again soon."

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"NASA says it will announce its decision on whether to send one more space shuttle to service and upgrade the orbital observatory in November." Surely it would be cheaper to fix it than to r

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See, the cosmologists and astronomers *can* agree on things occasionally.

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Indescribably beautiful images of distant galaxies from the HST. Best of all, there's no corporate logos or watermarks, just huge hi-res images to drool over.

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Warning for the chronically insecure - universe may be bigger and older than previously estimated. You are now even more insignificant than before!

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Boffins confident it's a minor fixable problem. Here's hoping - I rely on Hubble for my desktop wallpapers, I'd be gutted to lose it.

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Hear that? That's the all-to-frequent sound of the cosmology rulebook being torn up again

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...they'll assemble the next one on the ground before launching it.

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Pretty pictures of space stuff

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HubbleSite -- Out of the ordinary...out of this world.

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Beyond phenomenal. It makes me feel kind of lonely, knowing that there are likely so many other civilisations out there but we can't communicate with them. But in a good way. I'm glad to be able to...

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Hubble has detected for the first time an organic molecule on a exoplanet.

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