They’re ready.
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Today #LaunchAmerica astronauts Robert Behnken and @astro.doug arrived at @nasakennedy in Florida to start final preparations for liftoff.
On May 27,
they’ll make history in the first launch of American astronauts from American soil in nearly a decade.
Click the link in bio to learn more.

#OTD in 2009,
after astronauts completed upgrades and repairs,
@NASAHubble was released to resume observing the universe.
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In this image,
space shuttle Atlantis'
remote manipulator system arm lifts the telescope from the shuttle's cargo bay moments before release.
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This was the fifth and final servicing mission for Hubble.
Over five spacewalks,
astronauts installed two brand-new science instruments:
the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS)
and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).
They also prolonged Hubble's life by installing new batteries,
new gyroscopes,
a new science computer,
a refurbished fine guidance sensor and new insulation on three electronics bays.⁣
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Image Credit:
NASA⁣
⁣ #hubble #nasa #telescope #upgrade

Look into the constellation Libra through the eyes of @NASAHubble...⁣
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Our Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of spiral galaxy NGC 5861,
located in the constellation,
approximately 85 million light-years away from Earth.⁣
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NGC 5861 is an intermediate spiral galaxy,
with a shape in between that of a barred spiral galaxy (one that appears to have a central bar-shaped structure)
and that of an unbarred spiral galaxy (one without a central bar).
Two supernovae,
SN 1971D and SN 2017erp,
have been observed in the galaxy.
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Image credit:
ESA/Hubble &
NASA,
A.
Riess et al.⁣
⁣ #galaxy #spacephotos #universe #hubble #nasa #spiralgalaxy