Hubble Definition and 271 Threads

  1. A

    Super hubble and subhorizon fluctuations

    It is emphasized by Mr. bradenberger the concept of super Hubble subhorizon fluctuations. I appreciate the idea that Hubble radius and horizon are different ideas since they are physically distinct and particle horizon depends on the dynamics of cosmos evolution while Hubble radius only depends...
  2. T

    The diffraction limit of the Hubble ST

    I'm trying to calculate the diffraction limit/angular resolution for the Hubble Space Telescope. I know this can be found using the formula: \theta = 1.22 \frac{\lambda}{D} Where \lambda is the wavelength of the light being observed and D is the diameter of the objective lens (2.5 m on...
  3. T

    Why Is a Single Wavelength Used to Calculate Hubble's Diffraction Limit?

    I'm trying to calculate the diffraction limit/angular resolution for the Hubble Space Telescope. I know this can be found using the formula: \theta = 1.22 \frac{\lambda}{D} Where \lambda is the wavelength of the light being observed and D is the diameter of the objective lens (2.5 m on...
  4. P

    Stargazing Hubble Space Telescope: Learn What It Is & How It Works

    What is a Hubble Space Telescope and how does it work?
  5. Ivan Seeking

    Hubble mystery light puzzles astronomers

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28622042/
  6. stevebd1

    Hubble Mystery Light Puzzles Astronomers

    Irene Klotz, Discovery News, 12th Jan 09- http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/01/12/strange-light-hubble.html and from the Hubble site- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2009/04/
  7. K

    Photo of Einstein, Hubble, and LeMaitre together?

    Photo of Einstein, Hubble, and LeMaitre together?? Hey, I was wondering if anyone knew where i could find a picture of Einstein, Hubble, and LeMaitre together. I think they were all together in California in the 1930s and if anyone knows anything about this, i'd really appreciate the insight...
  8. I

    What is the Difference Between Motion and Expansion in the Hubble Law?

    Can anyone help me with this question? Or at least lead me in the right direction? Two students are having a discussion after studying the Hubble Law. Student 1: According to the Hubble Law space is expanding. Therefore our galaxy is bigger today than it was in the past and will keep...
  9. Integral

    Hubble down, Repair mission delayed

    Due to a http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.hubble30sep30,0,7125042.story" , Hubble has been silenced.
  10. M

    Hubble+/- 4.3%, is the constant constant ?

    Hubble+/- 4.3%, is the constant "constant"? Why is the Hubble constant assumed to be "constant"? Just to keep things simple a la Occam's razor? Or is there a lot more to it than that? With further increases in the accuracy of its measurement, and a few centuries to make repeated...
  11. Y

    What Do 600 Hubble Survey Results Reveal About Cosmic Expansion?

    I came across this interesting Havard article at http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~huchra/hubble.plot.dat listing over 600 Hubble survey results dating back to about 1929 and up to 2008. I put all the data into into a spreadsheet and using over 500 Hubble estimates from 1960 onwards I got an average...
  12. G

    Inflation & the Hubble Length in cm

    I am presently reading a paper on Inflation. It uses the term Hubble length. Can someone provide the Hubble length in cm.
  13. Y

    Is the Hubble constant, constant?

    It seems to me that in an expanding universe where the expansion rate is accelerating, that the Hubble constant will be greater for near stars than the constant for far stars that were receding at lower rate at the time the light from them was emitted. So when I see a cosmology calculator...
  14. W

    Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Period

    Use Kepler’s laws to determine the period of the Hubble Space Telescope which orbits the Earth at an altitude of 610 km. I'm using the equation i know to find the period of an object revolving around another object T^2=Kr^3 T^2=(4pi^2/GM)*r^3 G=6.67 x 10^-11 M=5.98× 10^24 (Mass of...
  15. W

    Determining Hubble Constant and Scale Factor of Universe

    Hi, I am in my second astronomy course and just received a twenty question take home final exam, and I am having trouble with two of the questions. In 2004 astronomers reported finding evidence that certain white dwarfs are 12.1 +- 0.9 billion years old. Assuming an inflationary model in...
  16. M

    QuestionExploring the Hubble Constant: Calculating Distance and Limitations

    The Question One possible value for the Hubble constant is 65Kms Mpc. Calculate in Mpc, the distance from Earth for agalaxy trallening at the speed of light, 3.0\times10^{8} Attempt v=Hd v=3\times10^8 H= 65Km s Mpc First I will convert the constant to ms so that I have both in...
  17. D

    Hubble ultra deep field - beyond the big bang

    was just reading about the Hubble ultra deep field photo / life the universe etc; here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Universe they re saying they can photograph the universe to 13billion light years distant / back in time (hubble photo caption a little way down says "Hubble...
  18. J

    Hubble Expansion: Moon Orbital Distance & Error Check

    Hello, A couple of questions: The distance to the moon is calculated as increasing by 38 millimetres per year by the laser ranging work of NASA following Apollo 11. When I apply the Hubble expansion coeficient to the centre to centre distance from Earth to the Moon, I get just over 28...
  19. S

    Theoretical Resolution of Hubble

    It's quite simple Physics to show that the moon landing sites cannot be imaged by Hubble as its angular resolution is too small. So how come: "Prof Steve Beckwith Director Hubble 1998-2005 "we could easily image the light from a firefly at the distance of the moon" What am I missing here?
  20. wolram

    A Galaxy Beyond Gravity and the Hubble Flow

    What would happen if the area a galaxy occupied spanned the influence of gravity and the Hubble flow?
  21. J

    Hubble expansion inside a contracting supercluster

    The purpose of this thread is to further discuss the concept of the Hubble expansionary flow in our local region -- which is too small to be considered homogeneous for the purposes of the Friedmann equations, say up to a radius of 100 Mpc from us. (A megaparsec (Mpc) equals about 3.25 million...
  22. Z

    Hubble parameter in early universe

    If the Hubble parameter is always decreasing for very early stages of Big Expansion of manifold (i.e. Big Bang), then what was it decreasing from?
  23. U

    Cepheid Stars & the Hubble Parameter: What is Their Role?

    What is the role of Cepheid stars in determining the Hubble parameter?
  24. M

    Sharper than Hubble, from the ground.

    A little plug for my supervisor and former group. After a couple of years work with a very clever (zero read noise) CCD and a bit of clever DSP programming they now have a system which takes a sequence of very short exposures, picks the ones in which the atmosphere is frozen to give an...
  25. S

    Hubble Parameter & acc. Universe

    Hubble "Parameter"& acc. Universe I am a senior high student. And I am studying on SnIa. I recently read that SOME(maybe most) theory said that hubble's constant is not a CONSTANT, it's changing by time. But I wonder if there are something influent the data. (like "slection effect" .etc)...
  26. R

    About Hubble Radius (Radius of the Hubble sphere)

    I found the following definition for the Hubble Radius: The radius of the Hubble sphere (Hubble radius) is defined to be the distance from a fixed point O (center of coordinate system) of an object moving with the cosmological expansion at the speed of light (with respect to O)...
  27. shintashi

    Unravelling the Mystery of Hubble Time and Galactic Plasma

    I was staring at my calculus book when this came to me, so apologies if its a little murky. I've been thinking about Hubble time and noticing something odd, that my astronomy professor really couldn't (or wouldn't) answer. t(u)= 1/H x 10e12 years which didn't quite work because if the...
  28. Integral

    Should We Rely on Robots to Repair the Hubble Telescope?

    http://science.discovery.com/tvlistings/episode.jsp?episode=0&cpi=111531&gid=0&channel=SCI" The above is a link to a Discovery Science channel show. It is a must watch for all man is space enthusiast. It is on Sunday 11 Mar at 6pm. (that is tonight for this post.)
  29. E

    Nucleosynthesis and Hubble expansion

    How are Nucleosynthesis and Hubble expansion are considered as an evidence for the Big Bang Theory?
  30. N

    Question concerning the universe & the Hubble photos

    I have a decent question, I think, about the Hubble photos and the universe. When the Hubble took the photos that show stars cluttered together, and that it is supposedly the first few hundred thousand years of the universes life, that got me thinking. If you pointed the Hubble in any given...
  31. K

    Calculating the Angular Resolution of the Hubble Telescope

    Qw The Hubble telescope has a primary mirror with diameter 2.4 m. Calculate the angular resolution of the Hubble telescope in both radians and degrees at a wavelength of 600 nm. Imagine that the Hubble telescope images the surface of the moon, 3.84*10^8 m away. What is the smallest feature on...
  32. A

    Hubble Findings: What Does It Mean for Theories of Everything?

    http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/10/11/16/1 Latest data from Hubble indicates that: What are the ramifications of this finding for the various TOEs we have?
  33. turbo

    Can the Hubble Repair Mission Extend the Life of NASA's Beloved Telescope?

    NASA plans to service HST. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061031/ap_on_sc/shuttle_hubble
  34. russ_watters

    Will NASA's Hubble Servicing Mission Save the Telescope?

    I thought it was toast - apparently not: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2006-09-21-atlantis-hubble_x.htm Sweet.
  35. T

    New Hubble Constant: Universe 180 Billion Light-Years Wide in 15.8B Years

    Just got through reading http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060807_mm_huble_revise.html" about findings that suggest the Hubble constant is about 15% smaller than previously believed. From the article: The new finding implies that the universe is. . . about 15.8 billion years old and...
  36. R

    Can NASA Keep Hubble Operational with Recent Repairs?

    http://www.forbes.com/infoimaging/2006/06/30/hubble-nasa-ball_cx_dl_0630hubble.html And here I was actually worrying about it! :rolleyes: You know, after our Mars-exploring president murdered it with a blunt axe: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6853009
  37. K

    Hubble Recession vs. Moon Recession

    70 \frac{km/s}{Mpc}*\left(384400\ km\right)=8.72028137*10^{-10}\frac{m}{s} 8.72028137*10^{-10}\frac{m}{s}*\frac{3.1556926*10^{7}\ s}{yr}=2.75185274\ \frac{cm}{yr} http://www.google.com/search?q=70+km%2Fs%2FMpc+*+384400+km+*+1+year http://www.google.com/search?q=1+year+%2F+1+second&btnG=Search...
  38. U

    Why Do Hubble Photos Have Black Squares?

    Why do some photos have black squares cut out of them from hubble, like this: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/astro/hst_antennae_9734a1.jpg
  39. V

    What Do Orbital Motions of Outer Planets Reveal About the Pioneer Anomaly?

    http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0601/09milkyway/ http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0601/11hubbleorion/
  40. Astronuc

    NASA NASA's Hubble Discovers New Rings and Moons Around Uranus

    http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2005/33/full/
  41. J

    Does the expansion of the universe affect our observations in the real world?

    I did look through this forum for other threads on this topic, but didn't find any. If this has already been discussed, then please let me know where the thread is. A common model for the expanding universe is an expanding balloon upon which some dots have been drawn. A well know flaw in this...
  42. N

    Hubble discovers two new satellites of Pluto

    NASA'S HUBBLE REVEALS POSSIBLE NEW MOONS AROUND PLUTO Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to view the ninth planet in our solar system, astronomers discovered Pluto may have not one, but three moons. If confirmed, the discovery of the two new moons could offer insights into the nature and...
  43. B

    What is the field of view of the Hubble Telescope's planetary camera?

    I was just reading about the Hubble Telescope and I saw something saying that the planetary camera on it had a field of view of 2.5' x 2'. I don't actually know anything about astronomy so I was just curious what the field of view is? I found that the ' meant arcminutes, but that doesn' help...
  44. P

    FYI - online petition to keep Voyager & Hubble programs going

    http://www.planetary.org/voyager_hubble/
  45. marlon

    Understanding Astrophysics: The Hubble Distance and Beyond

    You know, there are many things in astrophysics, that i do not understand :smile: For example, this thing of the Hubble distance. At distances that exceed the Hubble distance the universe is expanding with velocities that are bigger then the speed of light. Suppose that in this region a...
  46. K

    Hubble Trouble: Solving the Big Bang Age and Acceleration Mystery

    I've just been thimking of some potenial problems with the "expanding universe" and its supposed acceleration. Objects further away are traveling faster. Does this mean it is speeding up or was it oroginally traveling faster during the big bang, and that's why it's further away? The age of...
  47. I

    The Hubble Length and Mass of the Universe

    What is the magnitude of the Hubble length and what does it signify? Also, does anyone have any idea what the estimated mass of the universe is.
  48. M

    Save the Hubble: Unmanned Rocket Solution

    I heard the decision this morning to drop the Hubble Space Telescope into the Pacific Ocean. I wondered what the required delta v would be to move the Hubble into a "safe" service orbit nearer the ISS. The rescue options that have been most public have been either a robitic service mission or...
  49. marcus

    Hubble fix-up funds cut (MSN 21 Jan)

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6853009/ the white house cut entire budget for hubble "NASA told to focus on destroying telescope safely"
  50. S

    Challenges in Determining the Density of the Universe

    Hubble got this forumula , Density=kH^2 k=constant H=Hubble constant What are the experimantal difficulties in determining the density of the universe accurately ? Ans:The mass of the whole universe is difficult to find same to the volume as well...what else ?please help me out...
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