Hubble telescope opens new eyes on the Universe
Wed Sep 09, 2009 8:50 pm » by bugmenot
Hubble telescope opens new eyes on the Universe 
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A refurbished Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the sharpest photos yet of the beautiful cosmos, complete with heavenly glows.
It is poised to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the invisible backbone of the Universe.
A butterfly-shaped nebula called NGC 6302. The central star has an estimated surface temperature of about 250,000 degrees celsius. Minerals including water ice and complex hydrocarbon molecules have been detected here. It lies 4,000 light years from Earth.
The first snapshots from the refurbished Hubble showcase the 19-year-old telescope's new vision. Topping the list of exciting new views are colourful multi-wavelength pictures of far-flung galaxies, a densely packed star cluster, an eerie 'pillar of creation,' and a 'butterfly' nebula.
Astronomers have declared Hubble a fully rejuvenated observatory with the release of the images at NASA headquarters today.
With its new imaging camera, Hubble can view galaxies, star clusters, and other objects across a wide swath of the electromagnetic spectrum, from ultraviolet to near-infra-red light. A new spectrograph slices across billions of light-years to map the filamentary structure of the universe and trace the distribution of elements that are fundamental to life.
Spectacular: Stars bursting to life in the chaotic Carina Nebula. This nebula lies at an estimated 6,500 to 10,000 light years from Earth.
Closer to home is the planet Jupiter. The planet's volume is equal to 1,317 Earths. Hubble snapped the impact zone after a collision with a possible comet. It is the dark blemish at the bottom.
The telescope's new instruments also are more sensitive to light and can observe in ways that are significantly more efficient and require less observing time than previous generations of Hubble instruments.
NASA astronauts installed the new instruments during the space shuttle servicing mission in May 2009. Besides adding the instruments, the astronauts also completed a dizzying list of other chores that included performing unprecedented repairs on two other science instruments.
This is a portrait of Stephan¿s Quintet, also known as Hickson Compact Group 92. Studies have shown that NGC 7320, at upper left, is actually a foreground galaxy about seven times closer to Earth than the rest of the group. The blue stars are younger than the red stars.
A panoramic view of a colourful assortment of 100,000 stars residing in the Globular Star Cluster Omega Centauri
Now that Hubble has reopened for business, it will tackle a whole range of observations. Looking closer to Earth, such observations will include taking a census of the population of Kuiper Belt objects residing at the fringe of our solar system, witnessing the birth of planets around other stars, and probing the composition and structure of the atmospheres of other worlds.
Peering much farther away, astronomers have ambitious plans to use Hubble to make the deepest-ever portrait of the universe in near-infra-red light. The resulting picture may reveal never-before-seen infant galaxies that existed when the universe was less than 500 million years old.
Hubble also is now significantly more well-equipped to probe and further characterise the behaviour of dark energy, a mysterious and little-understood repulsive force that is pushing the universe apart at an ever-faster rate.
The barred spiral galaxy NGC 6217 was photographed in June and July 2009 as part of the initial testing of Hubble. The galaxy is six million light-years away in the north circumpolar constellation Ursa Major
The Hubble Space Telescope's newly repaired Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) has peered nearly five billion light-years away to resolve intricate details in the galaxy cluster Abell 370
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... verse.htmlA refurbished Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the sharpest photos yet of the beautiful cosmos, complete with heavenly glows.
It is poised to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the invisible backbone of the Universe.
A butterfly-shaped nebula called NGC 6302. The central star has an estimated surface temperature of about 250,000 degrees celsius. Minerals including water ice and complex hydrocarbon molecules have been detected here. It lies 4,000 light years from Earth.
The first snapshots from the refurbished Hubble showcase the 19-year-old telescope's new vision. Topping the list of exciting new views are colourful multi-wavelength pictures of far-flung galaxies, a densely packed star cluster, an eerie 'pillar of creation,' and a 'butterfly' nebula.
Astronomers have declared Hubble a fully rejuvenated observatory with the release of the images at NASA headquarters today.
With its new imaging camera, Hubble can view galaxies, star clusters, and other objects across a wide swath of the electromagnetic spectrum, from ultraviolet to near-infra-red light. A new spectrograph slices across billions of light-years to map the filamentary structure of the universe and trace the distribution of elements that are fundamental to life.
Spectacular: Stars bursting to life in the chaotic Carina Nebula. This nebula lies at an estimated 6,500 to 10,000 light years from Earth.
Closer to home is the planet Jupiter. The planet's volume is equal to 1,317 Earths. Hubble snapped the impact zone after a collision with a possible comet. It is the dark blemish at the bottom.
The telescope's new instruments also are more sensitive to light and can observe in ways that are significantly more efficient and require less observing time than previous generations of Hubble instruments.
NASA astronauts installed the new instruments during the space shuttle servicing mission in May 2009. Besides adding the instruments, the astronauts also completed a dizzying list of other chores that included performing unprecedented repairs on two other science instruments.
This is a portrait of Stephan¿s Quintet, also known as Hickson Compact Group 92. Studies have shown that NGC 7320, at upper left, is actually a foreground galaxy about seven times closer to Earth than the rest of the group. The blue stars are younger than the red stars.
A panoramic view of a colourful assortment of 100,000 stars residing in the Globular Star Cluster Omega Centauri
Now that Hubble has reopened for business, it will tackle a whole range of observations. Looking closer to Earth, such observations will include taking a census of the population of Kuiper Belt objects residing at the fringe of our solar system, witnessing the birth of planets around other stars, and probing the composition and structure of the atmospheres of other worlds.
Peering much farther away, astronomers have ambitious plans to use Hubble to make the deepest-ever portrait of the universe in near-infra-red light. The resulting picture may reveal never-before-seen infant galaxies that existed when the universe was less than 500 million years old.
Hubble also is now significantly more well-equipped to probe and further characterise the behaviour of dark energy, a mysterious and little-understood repulsive force that is pushing the universe apart at an ever-faster rate.
The barred spiral galaxy NGC 6217 was photographed in June and July 2009 as part of the initial testing of Hubble. The galaxy is six million light-years away in the north circumpolar constellation Ursa Major
The Hubble Space Telescope's newly repaired Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) has peered nearly five billion light-years away to resolve intricate details in the galaxy cluster Abell 370
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- brillbilly
Wed Sep 09, 2009 9:56 pm » by brillbilly
they are some fantastic pictures,the mind boggles 
Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:59 pm » by Aragajag
The mind boggles again.
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