CNN/AP: Hubble camera comes back to life

Hubble camera comes back to life
Friday, June 30, 2006


The Hubble Space Telescope's main camera has provided stunning pictures of the universe.

BALTIMORE, Maryland (AP) -- The main camera on the Hubble Space Telescope came back to life Friday for the first time in nearly two weeks after NASA engineers switched to a backup power system, the space agency announced.

The Advanced Camera for Surveys shut down June 19 after voltage readings exceeded the acceptable range. The switchover to the backup system began Thursday afternoon and was completed Friday morning, NASA said.

"This is the best possible news," said Ed Ruitberg, deputy associate director for the Astrophysics Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt. "We were confident we could work through the camera issue, and now we can get back to doing more incredible science with the camera."

The camera is scheduled to resume observations Sunday night. Other instruments on the orbiting telescope have continued to operate during the outage.

The ACS camera, installed by a space shuttle crew in March 2002, increased Hubble's vision 10 times and has given the clearest pictures yet of galaxies forming in the very early universe....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/06/30/hubble.camera.ap/index.html

the pictures that come back from Hubble are simply stunning:





















Much, much, much more here:
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/

don't mind me asking Green?

viewed against the Universe's wonders!

The last photo has always brought a tear to my eyes for some reason.

I don't feel like such a sentimental sap anymore. LOL. The second one always brings tears to my eyes.

I really like the last one. It used to be my computer wallpaper, before that hard drive died.

Welcome to DU FooFootheSnoo! :hi:

Nothing wrong with being an sentimental sap part of the time.

Keeps us grateful. :)

mindboggling - every single image in that photo is an entire galaxy and it is just an insignificant portion of the entire universe. It makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. :-)

Especially since the distances between galaxies are measured in hundreds of billions of light years. That creator dude obviously could travel and create stuff much faster than the speed of light.

I mean 6,000 years ago.

the coincidence is striking.

someone posted about it here the other day, but I can't seem to locate the link now.

photos. Never tire of them. I'm so glad it's in order again.

:woohoo:

My astronomer friends were getting a little worried.

:woohoo: Great news!

He didn't want overhead of him playing musical hotels in Budapest?


Who was left without a room when the music stopped?

Evidence of the best luck because everyone knows that King Chimp would have let it die.

J

These photos reveal what is right about the talent and resources that are being brought together in a way that shows us what cooperation is all about.

When I first saw these, they took my breath away


The star nursery at the tip of each unimaginably huge column looks to me like God's fingertip (if he had one)

Also particulary fond of the horsehead nebula:

looks a bit like a brontosaurus coming out of the cosmic primordial swamp.

Among some galactic super civilization. It would make an amusing Dr. Who episode anyway.

working again. :sarcasm: