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Hubble's new vision "stuns" astronomers

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  • 01-05-2002 6:06pm
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    Scruff
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    Hubble is sending back some amazing new images of deep space with its new camera that is x10 more sensitive than what it was launched with.

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    image shows a previously unseen tail of gas and young stars stretching 280,000 light years from the colliding galaxies dubbed "the Tadpole".

    The Tadpole background shows twice as many galaxies as the "Hubble Deep Field" image taken in 1995, yet the ACS required only one-twelfth of the time to record its image.

    read more at New Scientist


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    smiles
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    Thats a really really really pretty image.

    And as for the Hubble telescope, it's damn amazing some of the stuff they find out every time they look a bit closer.

    << Fio >>


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    saik
    Closed Accounts Posts: 293 ✭✭saik


    i'm starting to lose faith in nasa?
    like 5 years ago, they launch a crippled satellite, at 40% extra cost, they then fix it, 4 years after this ONLY NOW do they realise it's got good eyesight.


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    bonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭bonkey


    Originally posted by saik
    ONLY NOW do they realise it's got good eyesight.

    Did you miss the bit that mentioned its new camera which is 10x better than its predecessor?

    They've known that Hubble had good eyesight since they corrected the initial error. In fact, they knew that the corrected mirror produced images of better quality then their cameras of the day could handle. AFAIK, the new camera is still not utilising the mirror to the full extent.

    So they've upgraded. The Hubble was designed to allow that type of maintenance, because they wanted it to be somewhat future-proof. I would see these improvements as a reason to regain faith in NASA, not lose it.

    jc


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    molie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭molie


    does anyone know about the new orbiting telescope in the works


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