AOL News is joining forces with The Huffington Post to bring you the best original reporting, insight and opinion on the web. Join HuffPost Social News using your AOL account!

HubbleSpaceTelescope News

HubbleSpaceTelescope News From AOL News

Pluto, Former Planet, Ready for Its Close-Up

By Carl FranzenFeb 4th 2010 – 8:22PM
NASA

NASA

(Feb. 4) -- Pluto may no longer be considered an official planet, but that doesn't mean astronomers are neglecting it. On Thursday, NASA released "the most detailed set of images ever taken" of the dwarf planet and also a composite video of it rotating. The 350 images from NASA were snapped between 2002 and 2003 by the...

Hubble Telescope Gives Earliest Glimpse of Universe

Jan 6th 2010 – 9:25AM
ESA / NASA

ESA / NASA

WASHINGTON (Jan. 5) -- The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the earliest image yet of the universe -- just 600 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was just a toddler. Scientists released the photo Tuesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. It's the most complete picture of the early...

Background on HubbleSpaceTelescope

more at wikipedia ยป