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BALTIMORE -- Imagine cruising the heavens from your desktop and seeing all the spectacular images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Exploding stars and faraway galaxies are just a mouse click away through Sky in Google Earth.Sky in Google Earth is produced by Google, the company that hosts the popular Internet search engine, through a partnership with the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, the science operations center for Hubble. To access the new feature, users will need...

BALTIMORE (AP) - The main camera on the Hubble Space Telescope shut down unexpectedly for the second time this year, the operators of the orbiting observatory announced Friday.The Space Telescope Science Institute, which coordinates use of the telescope, said the camera shut down Saturday. Program managers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt blamed the shutdown on a voltage drop to the device and were investigating the cause and what action to take, but expected to have at...

The Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope was successfully reactivated on Friday 30 June 2006.Engineers had received indications on Monday 19 June that power supply voltages were out of acceptable limits, causing the camera to be switched into a safe holding state. Engineers studied the problem and determined that an electrical power supply had failed. While the Advanced Camera for Surveys was out of operation, Hubble observations continued using other...