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Hubble turns 20

Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope. It's hard to believe it's been going strong for so many years.

WISE's weekly featured image

I'm pleased to point out that the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission (WISE) has started an

CoRoT-7b was the first unambiguously rocky planet to be discovered and was quite small, at under five Earth masses. But a press release issued today suggests that its history probably has little to do with Earth's.

Congratulations to the WISE team on a beautiful "First Light" photo!

Congratulations are due to the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) team on their lovely

Kepler discovers its first five exoplanets

Congratulations to NASA's Kepler mission team on their announcement of the discovery of its first five exoplanets (planets around other stars).

Two cool discoveries today: icy-hot exoplanet and smallest ever Kuiper Belt object

There are two cool stories circulating today on the theme of discovering new places in the cosmos.

FINDS Exo-Earths Starts Up: Testing the Prototype

The prototype that Julien constructed in the lab was taken to Lick Observatory, and we had our first-light run with the fiber in July.

An Auspicious Week for Astronomy

On Monday, if all goes well, we will launch the Space Shuttle to rejuvenate one the greatest scientific missions launched on or off the Earth: the Hubble Space Telescope.