News Scoop: January 28, 2000 Vol.5 No.15
- This Issue:
- Table of Contents
- Cover Story
- Cover Story - Spanish Version
- Mini-Lesson
- Comprehension Quiz
- Teacher's Guide and Worksheets
A New Look at Space
Astronauts on the shuttle Discovery spent Christmas in space. They were on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble takes crystal-clear pictures of space from high above Earth. Without Earth's atmosphere and clouds in the way, the Hubble telescope can take much better pictures of space than a telescope on the ground can.
Here is one of the Hubble's first photos since the repair. The "Eskimo" Nebula (neb-yoo-la), left, looked like a face surrounded by a fuzzy parka to the man who discovered it. But it is really a giant ball of gas puffed out by a dying star. It began forming about 10,000 years ago.
The dying star was similar to our sun. Could there have been Earth-like planets around it?
