NASA's souped-up Hubble set to probe history of the cosmos

21.05.2009

After undergoing about four months of testing and calibrating the new instruments, Hubble will use its full tool belt to detect the chemicals in the atmospheres of Earth-sized exoplanets. It also will study black holes, dark energy and dark matter, along with deep star formation in fledgling galaxies.

Hundreds of astronomers are using Hubble to feed them information for about 200 ongoing, individual science programs.