Hubble Definition and 271 Threads

Hubble Approaches the Final Frontier: The Dawn of Galaxies, a PR earlier today, includes some interesting results, as well as a good insight into how five different teams analysed the data in different ways to arrive at more or less the same, or mutually re-inforcing, conclusions. From this...

http://space.com/news/hubble_mission_040810.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3545130.stm

I saw once a while back on the History Channel that Hubble looks something like 14.5 billion years into the past? I know very very very little about physics but this has me very interested. Could some one clarify this a bit? I assume that the reason Hubble looks into the past is because the...

WOW! BEAUTIFUL! http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/02/20/shc.hubble.supernova/index.html

Hubble Ultra Deep Field! Very, very, very http://www10.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/stsci/hubbledev/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2004/07/index.html.

If you are a US citizen, and wish to add your voice to those who want to save Hubble, you may be interested in http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1200_1.asp

According to this article, some powerful folk are fighting O'Keefe's decision: http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1160_1.asp You might want to have your say too.

I read recently on the BBC digital news service that Hubble has taken a picture of the Universe that dates back further than any other and to do this i stayed fixed on one spot of the Universe for 80 days. How is it that, it worked? Im sure i should know why, but just can't seem to get my...

This may be a simple question but I didn’t found anything in my references: the vacuum energy density is a constant value, which depends on the virtual excitations of the quantum fields. If the universe expands, increases its volume, and the vacuum energy density remains is constant, does this...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3155200.stm

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7039989%255E401,00.html

I heard this question on a radio talk show. The original plan was to send up another shuttle mission to retrieve the Hubble so that it could be displayed in the Smithsonian Musuem. But with the Challanger and Columbia accidents behind us, do you think the risk is worth it? What should be...

(1) Go ahead and save it with the shuttle. (2) Keep it in orbit (maintenance missions). (3) Let it burn up in the atmosphere. (4) Other. Heard this question posed on a radio talk show. The original plan was that, once its performance period was done*, a shuttle mission would be sent up...

The "Hubble speed" of Imagine whereever Imagine goes, a crowd of people always collects, trying to explain the world----Imagine exerts a kind of magnetism or enchantment----and being no exception I also feel compelled to explain the world to Imagine. Most recently Imagine has written...

What is our actual Hubble "speed" ? Bonjour, Upon Hubble constant, recession speed is decreasing with distance (or time!-). That could be interpreted as deceleration but some persons articulate that as metric expansion (or metric expansion decelerating over time ?-). What is our own...

Bonjour, From what I red (understand??), the Hubble constant is calculated from galaxy's distance (from us and each other). 1) Is the information speed limit (c) considered constant althrough (through out??) the path? 2) Is the distance from us mesured using redshift only? 3) When...

I am trying to understand how the doppler effect was used when determining that the other stars were moving away from us. I get that the spectral lines observed are shifted and by examining that data we can calculate how fast its moving and if it is towards or away from us. could anyone...

I see often that rhocrit(the critical density of matter), is expressed this way: rhocrit=(3*(H^2))/(8*pi*G) This is not correct because a cosmological constant is missed. This is the Friedmann Equation: H^2=((8*pi*G*rhocrit)/3)+(lambda/3)-(k/(a^2)) Since it is known that the curvature(k)of...

In 1998 "Hubble volume" meant a cube 12 billion LY on a side Majin asked what is Hubble volume. I did a google search and found that in 1998 there was a computer simulation study at one of the Max Planck institutes which simulated a cube 12 billion LY on a side (comoving distance) other...

What is a Hubble volume?