HUBBLE Space Telescope SAVED!!!!
 

Yay! I am so excited, the new head of NASA aprooved a shuttle mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. His rpedecessor, a Bush adminstration stooge, had vetoed any repair and was willing to let the telescope destroy itself as it entered the earth's atmosphere, instead of sending a mission to repair it, with astronauts ALREADY TRAINED to repair it. I am so glad!
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Hubble saved!

Here are soe of the many fantastic images we have gotten allowing us to see the universe as it was as far back as 12 BILLION years ago thanks to the Hublle Space telescope.

The "Sombrero" Galaxy (50 million light years away)


The "Antennae" Galaxies in collision


The "Eskimo" Nebula (named because of it's resemblance to a hu8man head in a furry parka hood)


central region of the galaxy Centaurus A (the blue regions are where hundreds if not thousands of new stars are being born)


These and thousands more are a sample of the insane beauty we have been lucky to see due to th Hublle Space telescope, not to mention the myriad scientific advances as a result of the Hubble. I hope someone else is happy about this!!!!

Here is the NASA site's Astronomy Picture of The Day webpage, from whose archive I culled these images.
Astronomy Picture of the Day

I heard this on the radio this afternoon. Apparantly Hubble's lifetime will be increased buy at least another five years. Good news.

The last one should be called "Dirty Buttcrack Nebula" or "Burnt Grilled Cheese Sector-7"

I'm glad. The hubble is an awesome piece of machinery.

Now, lets go find the edge of the universe and what's behind it.

That is amazing, I hate how these morons want to let the Hubble Space Telescope die.

This one looks like some gross stain on a bathtub.

Fuck NASA. A complete waste of money. Why the fuck do we need to know everything about space? It's just fucking there.

finally, i can sleep at night.

This intriguing false-color image combines data from space-based observatories, Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer, to explore the debris cloud in x-rays (blue-purple), optical (green), and infrared (red) light. One of the most exotic objects known to modern astronomers, the Crab Pulsar, a neutron star spinning 30 times a second, is the bright spot near picture center



"Spirograph" Nebula



Nebula N44F
A fast and powerful wind from a hot young star has created this stunning bubble-shaped nebula poised on the end of a bright filament of hydrogen gas. Cataloged as N44F, the cosmic windblown bubble is seen at the left of this Hubble Space Telescope image. N44F lies along the northern outskirts of the N44 complex of emission nebulae in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a mere 160,000 light-years away. The bright, blue, hot star itself is just below the center of the bubble. Peering into the bubble's interior, the Hubble image reveals dramatic structures, including pillars of dust, aligned toward N44F's hot central star. Reminiscent of dust pillars in stellar nurseries within our Milky Way galaxy, they likely contain young stars at their tips. Expanding into the surrounding gas and dust at about 12 kilometers per second, N44F is around 35 light-years across.

Speaking of pulsars, they are more accurate, than any of earths atomic clocks.

Secure and accurate time sources

Broadcasts using sound or radiation, from sources such as radio, bell towers, and astronomical phenomena, must send out the same value to every receiver. A remote beacon such as a pulsar has perfect security: the access structure is any party, and its complement, the attack structure, is the empty set. For human controlled broadcasts, the attack structure consists only of the broadcaster and the access structure is any receiver.

Natural broadcasts are thus immune to the problem (known in computer science as the Byzantine Generals problem) of a transmitter sending different values to different receivers. Indeed, distributed network researchers have gone to great lengths to recreate this simple property on the Internet with logical broadcast protocols. The results are incomplete and very inefficient compared to physical broadcasts.

Nature provides clocks that are oblivious to the malicious intentions of any outside parties and many orders of magnitude more accurate than random delays that face attackers on the Internet. If critical Internet servers were synchronized to natural clocks in a secure and timely fashion, they would be immune to attacks that relied on uncertainties in timing. Pulsars overtake atomic clocks in accuracy after about 4 months.
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I'm going of topic for mentioning this, but did you know that Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures cover,
is a drawing of radio waves generated by a pulsar named PSR 1919+21?

you do realize that in like 100 years, we're probably gonna have used the planets resources and will need to find a new place to live.

A while back, I read about a couple of scientists, who had written an article about terraforming Mars. Their theory was to send a fungus with a black pigment to the frozen poles on the planet, that had the capability of multiplying rapidly and surviving the harsh temperatures. In a couple of decades, the surface would literally become darker, and automatically absorb warmth from the sun. This in turn would melt the poles, creating a denser atmosphere where life could evolve.

The Hubble is innovative because it gives us a clearer picture than ever before and eliminates the blurring effect caused by atmospheric conditions and dust. Before it, we had to rely on infrared and were forced to look at the universe through rose-colored lenses.

I suppose the edge is the farthest point of Interstellar Overdrive expansion so far.

The Big Bang is behind it. Those are the human terms. Behind that, what any Einsteinian reasonable intellect can only describe as God...where Eternity & Time are One.

Love is running wild on the Diamond Sea.

What's behind the formation of galaxies? That's much easier, since it is now a definitive fact. It's the death of stars and the resultant black holes which bring the party.

Dark star crashes, pouring its light into ashes.
Reason tatters, the forces tear loose from the axis.
Searchlight casting for faults in the clouds of delusion.
Shall we go, you and I while we can
Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?

Mirror shatters in formless reflections of matter.
Glass-hand dissolving to ice-petal flowers revolving.
Lady in velvet recedes in the nights of goodbye.
Shall we go, you and I while we can
Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?

Hubble site

Black Hole-Powered Spiral Galaxy NGC 7742

Earth is a Cyclops.

The Solar Optical Telescope (SOT), an advanced telescope onboard the Hinode satellite, was launched into space by theJapanese Aerospace Exploration Agency on September 22, 2006. On October 23, the SOT opened its protective doors and began taking pictures.

who are the geniuses who name these galaxies? can they come up with names even more stupid?

i have an idea, maybe it's crazy, but how about we get to know the planet where we live instead of trying to flee it as soon as we can?

everyneurotic, are you just clueless about science? there are thousands of geologists studying our own earth. there are thousands of astronomers using data from other planets to understand our own earth. there are thousands of biologists studying the earth's ecosystems and life, there are thousands of geophysicists studying our planet and it's structure and how it came to being, there are thousands of marine biologists dioing the same for the earth's oceans and ocean life. there are thousands of anthropologists studying the peoples and societies of earth. there are thousands of archeologists studying the earth's past as revealed through ruins. there are thousands of paleontologists studying ancient earth life through fossils.

so shut your ignorant mouth.

and do you know how much money those geologists, paleonthologists, biologists, etc. get compared to nasa? how about the simple fact that the space program is pretty much monopolized by the usa and much of international research money ends up there? do you know how much research gets delayed because of lack of funds?

get your facts straight.