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Hubblecast 48: Deep Observations of the Andromeda Galaxy In this episode of the Hubblecast, Joe Liske, aka Dr J, takes us on a tour of the outer reaches of the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest spiral galaxy to our Milky Way. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 47: Pandora's Cluster This joint episode of the Hubblecast and ESOcast presents Abell 2744, an unusual cluster of galaxies nicknamed "Pandora's Cluster" by the astronomers who have studied it. Looking at the galaxies, gas and dark matter in the cluster, scientists have reconstructed the series of huge collisions that created it, and have uncovered some strange phenomena never seen together before. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 46: A tour of Centaurus A The Hubblecast's Dr J, aka Joe Liske, takes us on a tour of Centaurus A, a bright and dusty galaxy in the Southern sky. Hubble’s observations are the most detailed ever made of this galaxy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 45: Building a treasure trove of observations The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is working on three of the most ambitious projects in its history just now. These multicycle treasury programs are using Hubble's unique ability to observe across the spectrum from ultraviolet, through visible, to infrared light, to build up a library of data which will serve astronomers for many years. In this podcast episode, presenter Dr J (aka Joe Liske) looks at these projects, and how they will complement the capabilities of the next great thing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 44: Hubble spies on the Tarantula Nebula The Hubblecast's Joe Liske (Dr J) takes us on a tour of the Tarantula Nebula. Bright star forming gas clouds, super star clusters and supernova remnants are just some of the sights in this dramatic region of the night sky. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 43: Hubble and Black Holes For centuries, scientists imagined objects so heavy and dense that their gravity might be strong enough to pull anything in - including light. They would be, quite literally, a black hole in space. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 42: Hubble's Greatest Hits What makes a scientific discovery really important? It's partly down to how much scientists use the discovery in subsequent work -- but it’s also partly down to what inspires their imagination. In this episode, the Hubblecast talks to some leading astronomers about their favourite Hubble discovery. Meanwhile, our presenter, Dr J, struggles to make up his mind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 41: Hubble's History Told by Hubble's Scientists Hubble's history of scientific breakthroughs has made us think afresh about our Universe. But behind the astronomical successes is a rollercoaster ride of scientific and technical challenges going back decades. The Hubblecast caught up with some of the key players in Hubble's history, including an astronaut, a Nobel Prize winner and one of the scientists who diagnosed Hubble's blurred vision in 1990. In this episode, narrated by veteran ESA scientist Bob Fosbury, they tell Hubbl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 40: Wide Field Camera 3 - Hubble's New Miracle Camera In early 2009, a team of astronauts visited Hubble to repair the wear and tear of twenty years of operating in a hostile environment - and to install two new instruments, the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, and Wide Field Camera 3 - better known as WFC3. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 39: The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) Today's telescopes study the sky across the electromagnetic spectrum. Each part of the spectrum tells us different things about the Universe, giving us more pieces of the cosmic jigsaw puzzle. The most powerful telescopes on the ground and in space have joined forces over the last decade in a unique observing campaign, known as GOODS, which reaches across the spectrum and deep back into cosmic time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 38: Hubble in popular culture When Hubble was launched in 1990, every astronomer knew it had an opportunity to make profound breakthroughs in science. A few realised its potential as a tool for inspiring people with awe for the Universe. But could anyone have predicted how deeply Hubble would become embedded in popular culture? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 37: Bubbles and baby stars Hubblecast 37: Bubbles and baby stars Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 37: Bubbles and baby stars This Hubblecast features a spectacular new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image - one of the largest ever released of a star-forming region. It highlights N11, part of a complex network of gas clouds and star clusters within our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. This region of energetic star formation is one of the most active in the nearby Universe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 36: Gifts from the sky: honouring 20 years of Hubble Gifts from the sky: honouring 20 years of Hubble Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 36: Gifts from the sky: honouring 20 years of Hubble Throughout its 20-year career, while moving at a staggering 28 000 kilometres per hour, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made more than 930 000 observations and snapped over 570 000 images of 30 000 celestial objects. It has made more than 110 000 trips around our planet while collecting more than 45 terabytes of data, enough information to fill nearly 5800 DVD movies. Astronomers using Hubble data have published more than 8700 scientific papers, making it one of the most productive ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 35: The stuff of legend The stuff of legend Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 35: The stuff of legend Hubblecast 35: The stuff of legend Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 35: The stuff of legend Gearing up for the 20th anniversary of the legendary space observatory, Dr. J takes a look at the story of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Born of an ambitious idea, it took decades for Hubble to become a reality. The project was complex and often faced huge setbacks but, ultimately, the powerful telescope took to the skies aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on 24 April 1990. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 34: Hubble snaps heavyweight of the Leo Triplet Hubble snaps heavyweight of the Leo Triplet Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 34: Hubble snaps heavyweight of the Leo Triplet Hubble has snapped a spectacular view of M66, the largest "player" of the Leo Triplet, and a galaxy with an unusual anatomy: it displays asymmetric spiral arms and an apparently displaced core. The peculiar anatomy is most likely caused by the gravitational pull of the other two members of the trio. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 34: Hubble snaps heavyweight of the Leo Triplet Hubble snaps heavyweight of the Leo Triplet Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 33: Saturn's stunning double show Saturn's stunning double show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 33: Saturn's stunning double show Saturn's stunning double show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 33: Saturn's stunning double show In January and March 2009, researchers using Hubble took advantage of a rare opportunity to record Saturn when its rings are edge-on, resulting in a unique movie featuring both of the giant planet's poles. Saturn is only in this position every 15 years or so and this favourable orientation has allowed a sustained study of the two beautiful and dynamic aurorae, Saturn's own northern and southern lights. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 32: Born in Beauty: Proplyds in the Orion Nebula Visible to the naked eye, only 1500 light-years from Earth, the great Orion Nebula has been known and revered since ancient times. A popular target of Hubble, researchers have now identified 42 new discs within it that could be the beginnings of new planetary systems like our own. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 32: Born in Beauty: Proplyds in the Orion Nebula Visible to the naked eye, only 1500 light-years from Earth, the great Orion Nebula has been known and revered since ancient times. A popular target of Hubble, researchers have now identified 42 new discs within it that could be the beginnings of new planetary systems like our own. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 32: Born in Beauty: Proplyds in the Orion Nebula Visible to the naked eye, only 1500 light-years from Earth, the great Orion Nebula has been known and revered since ancient times. A popular target of Hubble, researchers have now identified 42 new discs within it that could be the beginnings of new planetary systems like our own. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 31: Sky merger yields sparkling dividends Hubblecast 31: Sky merger yields sparkling dividends Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 31: Sky merger yields sparkling dividends Hubblecast 31: Sky merger yields sparkling dividends Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 31: Sky merger yields sparkling dividends A recent NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures what appears to be one very bright and bizarre galaxy, but is actually the result of a pair of spiral galaxies, like our own Milky Way, smashing together at incredible speeds. This object was a target of Hubble's and a handful of its "sibling" spacecraft as part of a massive comprehensive sky survey called GOALS. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 30: Rebirth of an icon Hubblecast 30: Rebirth of an icon Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 30: Rebirth of an icon Hubblecast 30: Rebirth of an icon Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 30: Rebirth of an icon After more than three months of calibration and testing, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is re-opening its rejuvenated eyes to begin probing the Universe once again. Dr. J reveals the stunning new images and the fascinating science behind them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 29: Mission Accomplished: Healing Hubble Hubblecast 29: Mission Accomplished: Healing Hubble Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 29: Mission Accomplished: Healing Hubble Hubblecast 29: Mission Accomplished: Healing Hubble Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 29: Mission Accomplished: Healing Hubble The fifth and final mission to the iconic Hubble Space Telescope was a long time coming. After a delay in the fall of 2008, spring brought new hope and, on 11 May, the seven Space Shuttle crew members headed for the mission of a lifetime. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 28: The fifth and final Hubble servicing mission Hubblecast 28: The fifth and final Hubble servicing mission Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 28: The fifth and final Hubble servicing mission Hubblecast 28: The fifth and final Hubble servicing mission Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 28: The fifth and final Hubble servicing mission Shuttle astronauts will visit the Hubble Space Telescope for the final time in May 2009. In five bold and daring spacewalks, they will upgrade Hubble's instruments allowing it to continue making remarkable scientific discoveries well into the next decade. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 27: What has Hubble taught us about the planets? For nineteen years, NASA/ESA' s Hubble Space Telescope has made some of the most dramatic discoveries in the history of astronomy but it has also helped scientists learn more about our own Solar System. From its vantage point 600 km above the Earth, Hubble has studied every planet in our Solar System except Mercury where light from the Sun would damage its instruments. Hubble has captured the impact of a comet on Jupiter, immense storms on Neptune and even tiny dwarf planets at the edg ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 27: What has Hubble taught us about the planets? Hubblecast 27: What has Hubble taught us about the planets? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 27: What has Hubble taught us about the planets? Hubblecast 27: What has Hubble taught us about the planets? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 26: Exceptionally deep view of strange galaxy A spectacular new Hubble image of an unusual spiral galaxy in the Coma Galaxy Cluster has been released. It reveals lots of new details of the galaxy, NGC 4921, as well as an extraordinary rich background of more remote galaxies stretching back to the early Universe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 26: Exceptionally deep view of strange galaxy A spectacular new Hubble image of an unusual spiral galaxy in the Coma Galaxy Cluster has been released. It reveals lots of new details of the galaxy, NGC 4921, as well as an extraordinary rich background of more remote galaxies stretching back to the early Universe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 26: Exceptionally deep view of strange galaxy A spectacular new image of an unusual spiral galaxy in the Coma Galaxy Cluster has been created from data taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. It reveals lots of new details of the galaxy, NGC 4921, as well as an extraordinary rich background of more remote galaxies stretching back to the early Universe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 25 Special: What's Next? In this new Hubblecast Special episode, Dr. J guides us through the seventh chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's movie celebrating the telescope's 400th anniversary in 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 25 Special: What's Next? In this new Hubblecast Special episode, Dr. J guides us through the seventh chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's movie celebrating the telescope's 400th anniversary in 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 25 Special: What's Next? In this new Hubblecast Special episode, Dr. J guides us through the seventh chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's movie celebrating the telescope's 400th anniversary in 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 24 Special: Beyond Earth In this new Hubblecast episode, Dr. J guides us through the sixth chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's movie celebrating the telescope on its 400th anniversary in 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 24 Special: Beyond Earth In this new Hubblecast episode, Dr. J guides us through the sixth chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's movie celebrating the telescope on its 400th anniversary in 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 24 Special: Beyond Earth In this new Hubblecast episode, Dr. J guides us through the sixth chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's movie celebrating the telescope on its 400th anniversary in 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 23 Special: Seeing the invisible In this new Hubblecast episode, Dr. J guides us through the fifth chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's movie celebrating the telescope on its 400th anniversary in 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 23 Special: Seeing the invisible In this new Hubblecast episode, Dr. J guides us through the fifth chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's movie celebrating the telescope on its 400th anniversary in 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 23 Special: Seeing the invisible In this new Hubblecast episode, Dr. J guides us through the fifth chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's movie celebrating the telescope on its 400th anniversary in 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 22: Hubble directly observes planet orbiting Fomalhaut The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered an extrasolar planet using direct visible-light imaging for the first time. The strange world is far-flung from its parent star, is surrounded by a colossal belt of gas and dust, and may even have rings more impressive than Saturn's. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 22: Hubble directly observes planet orbiting Fomalhaut The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered an extrasolar planet, for the first time using direct visible-light imaging. The strange world is far-flung from its parent star, is surrounded by a colossal belt of gas and dust, and may even have rings more impressive than Saturn's. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 21 Special: From silver to silicon In this new Hubblecast episode, Dr. J guides us through the fourth chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's movie celebrating the telescope on its 400th anniversary in 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 21 Special: From silver to silicon In this new Hubblecast episode, Dr. J guides us through the fourth chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's movie celebrating the telescope on its 400th anniversary in 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 21 Special: From silver to silicon In this new Hubblecast episode, Dr. J guides us through the fourth chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's movie celebrating the telescope on its 400th anniversary in 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 20 Special: Technology to the rescue In this new Hubblecast episode, Dr. J guides us through the third chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's official movie celebrating the telescope on its 400th anniversary in 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 20 Special: Technology to the rescue In this new Hubblecast episode, Dr. J guides us through the third chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's official movie celebrating the telescope on its 400th anniversary in 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 20 Special: Technology to the rescue In this new Hubblecast episode, Dr. J guides us through the third chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's official movie celebrating the telescope on its 400th anniversary in 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 19 Special: Bigger is better In this new Hubblecast episode, Dr. J guides us through the second chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's official movie celebrating the telescope on its 400th anniversary in 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 19 Special: Bigger is better In this new Hubblecast episode, Dr. J guides us through the second chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's official movie celebrating the telescope on its 400th anniversary in 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 18: Hubble sees magnetic monster in erupting galaxy The Hubble Space Telescope has solved a long-standing puzzle by resolving giant but delicate filaments shaped by a strong magnetic field around the active galaxy NGC 1275. It is the most striking example so far of the influence of the immense tentacles of extragalactic magnetic fields. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 18: Hubble sees magnetic monster in erupting galaxy The Hubble Space Telescope has solved a long-standing puzzle by resolving giant but delicate filaments shaped by a strong magnetic field around the active galaxy NGC 1275. It is the most striking example so far of the influence of the immense tentacles of extragalactic magnetic fields. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 17 Special: New views of the skies In this new Hubblecast episode, Dr. J guides us through the first chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's official movie celebrating the telescope on its 400th anniversary in 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 17 Special: New views of the skies In this new Hubblecast episode, Dr. J guides us through the first chapter of Eyes on the Skies, the International Astronomical Union's official movie celebrating the telescope on its 400th anniversary in 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 16: Galaxies gone wild! One of the big mysteries in astronomy is how galaxies grow and evolve over time. Collisions between galaxies are thought to be key events that shape their development. A stunning collection of 59 new images of colliding galaxies has been released to mark the 18th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. They give us a unique insight into how galaxies collide to form larger galaxies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 16: Galaxies gone wild! One of the big mysteries in astronomy is how galaxies grow and evolve over time. Collisions between galaxies are thought to be key events that shape their development. A stunning collection of 59 new images of colliding galaxies has been released to mark the 18th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. They give us a unique insight into how galaxies collide to form larger galaxies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 15: Black hole found in enigmatic Omega Centauri For astronomers, Omega Centauri has been an outcast amongst globular clusters for a long time. A new result obtained by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Observatory provides a surprising explanation for Omega Centauri's peculiarities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 15: Black hole found in enigmatic Omega Centauri For astronomers, Omega Centauri has been an outcast amongst globular clusters for a long time. A new result obtained by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Observatory provides a surprising explanation for Omega Centauri's peculiarities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 14: Hubble finds first organic molecule on extrasolar planet The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in a planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough is an important step in eventually identifying signs of life on a planet outside our Solar System. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 14: Hubble finds first organic molecule on extrasolar planet The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in a planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough is an important step in eventually identifying signs of life on a planet outside our Solar System. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 13: Gargantuan galaxy NGC 1132 - A cosmic fossil The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the galaxy NGC 1132, which is most likely to be a cosmic fossil - the aftermath of an enormous multi-galactic pile-up, where the carnage of collision after collision has built up a brilliant but fuzzy giant elliptical galaxy far outshining typical galaxies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 13: Gargantuan galaxy NGC 1132 - A cosmic fossil The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the galaxy NGC 1132 which is most likely to be a “cosmic fossil” ? the aftermath of an enormous multi-galactic pile-up, where the carnage of collision after collision has built up a brilliant but fuzzy giant elliptical galaxy far outshining typical galaxies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 12: Murk on a monster planet Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have found the first clear evidence of high altitude haze or clouds in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet. This discovery reveals a deeper understanding of the class of giant planets that astronomers call hot Jupiters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 12: Murk on a monster planet Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have found the first clear evidence of high altitude haze or clouds in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet. This discovery reveals a deeper understanding of the class of giant planets that astronomers call hot Jupiters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 11: A grand design in a galactic festoon The galaxy Messier 74 lies at a distance of over 30 million light years. In this latest image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope the enormous swirls of this stunning spiral galaxy arc across space, adorned with glowing pink regions of hydrogen gas and lit by the pale blue light of millions of newly formed stars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 10: Making the Universe come to life - behind the Hubble images We live in a Universe of unimaginable scale and almost incomprehensible beauty. How is the light from the Universe transformed into the images that have inspired generations by making the Universe come to life? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 09: Extreme star cluster bursts into life! The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular image of NGC 3603, a giant nebula hosting one of the most prominent massive young clusters in the Milky Way. This is a splendid location for continued studies of stellar birth in star forming regions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 08: A step closer to our origin By scrutinising the Hubble Ultra Deep field - the deepest image of the sky ever made - the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope have joined forces to discover nine of the smallest, faintest, most compact galaxies ever observed in the distant Universe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 07: Uncovering the Veil Nebula The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered magnificent sections of the Veil Nebula - the shattered remains of a supernova that exploded some 5-10,000 years ago. The new Hubble images provide beautiful views of the delicate, wispy structure resulting from this cosmic explosion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 06: A battle of giants - telescopes in space and on the ground Have you ever wondered why some telescopes are launched into space while others are built on remote mountain tops? What is actually the best for astronomy? Here we provide a ringside view of the fight for the elusive photons from deep space - is it a battle of the telescope giants? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 05: Hubble discovers ring of dark matter An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a ghostly ring of dark matter formed long ago during a colossal collision between two galaxy clusters. This is the first time that dark matter has been found with a distribution that differs substantially from the distribution of ordinary matter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 04: Hubble Finds Multiple Stellar 'Baby Booms' in a Globular Cluster New Hubble observations of the massive globular cluster NGC 2808 provide evidence that it has three generations of stars instead of one as current theories predict. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 03: Celebrating Hubble's 17th birthday with violent stellar fireworks The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope celebrates its 17th birthday with one of the largest panoramic images ever taken. The violent stellar fireworks of the Carina Nebula. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 02: Galaxy bars and supermassive black holes Hubble has delivered an unrivalled snapshot of the nearby barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672. This remarkable image provides a high-definition view of the galaxy's large bar, its fields of star-forming clouds and its dark bands of interstellar dust. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubblecast 01: Hubble sees 'Comet Galaxy' being ripped apart by galaxy cluster The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in collaboration with several other ground- and space-based telescopes, has captured a galaxy being ripped apart by a galaxy cluster's gravitational field and harsh environment. The finding sheds light on the mysterious process by which gas-rich spiral-shaped galaxies might evolve into gas-poor irregular- or elliptical-shaped galaxies over billions of years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website