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13 NOV. 2008
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star.
The planet, called Fomalhaut b, is estimated to be no more than three times the mass of Jupiter. It orbits the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Austrinus, the Southern Fish.
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Hubble is back in business, and scores a perfect ‘10’
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is back in business with a snapshot of the fascinating galaxy pair Arp 147. The science operations were resumed on 25 October 2008, four weeks after a problem with the science data formatter took the spacecraft into safe mode.
Hubble enters safe mode
At approximately 02:00 CEST on Sunday, 28 September, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope automatically entered safe mode when errors were detected in the Control Unit/Science Data Formatter-Side A.
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