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	Hubble. Is. Back!

JohnWaterman

9-9-2009 2:34 PM

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9-9-2009 4:17 PM

JohnWaterman

More of these new images here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2009/sep/09/hubble-space-telescope-astronomy?picture=352725658

9-9-2009 4:23 PM

lollipop10

Good clip, thanks John.

9-9-2009 9:50 PM

disenchantedcitizen

Beautiful!

9-9-2009 10:57 PM

thisnamecantbetaken

It boggles the mind. What a fantastically beautiful universe we have.

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After a long and nervous wait for those of us stuck on Earth, <A target="_blank" href="http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2009/25/">the world’s most famous observatory is back on the job</A>! Behold!</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/09/09/hubble-is-back/"><CENTER>
<TABLE><TBODY><TR><TD align="center"><A target="_blank" href="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/384940main_ero_teaser_ngc6217_full_full.jpg"><IMG src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3521/3904049750_64fb114b95_o.jpg" /></A></TD></TR><TR><TD align="center"><FONT size="-2"><STRONG>Click to embiggen. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team</STRONG></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P></P></CENTER><BR clear="all" />
<P>W00t!</p> <P>That’s NGC 6217, a spiral galaxy <A target="_blank" href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/multimedia/ero/ero_ngc6217.html">as seen by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys</A>, a workhorse detector on Hubble that went on the fritz in January 2007. But when the STS-125 brought the Space Shuttle <EM>Atlantis</EM> to Hubble, it also carried two new cameras and the tools to fix two older, busted ones, including ACS. After a daring series of repairs and upgrades, Hubble is now back up to speed</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/09/09/hubble-is-back/"><P>But there’s more! Check out this deep image of the cluster Omega Centauri:</p> <P></P><CENTER>
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<P>Wow! <A target="_blank" href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/multimedia/ero/ero_omega_centauri.html">This picture</A> is from the newly installed Wide Field Camera 3</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/09/09/hubble-is-back/">a giant ball of millions of stars that orbits the Milky Way</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/09/09/hubble-is-back/">stars at all stages of evolution, from slowly glowing yellow to furiously churning red — stars at the ends of their lives, about to fizzle out into tiny, hot white dwarfs — and finally sapphire blue stars</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/09/09/hubble-is-back/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.discovermagazine.com/img/620288F4-BBDC-46C2-97CE-8E1BF934B12C" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E9683D72-7942-4F68-AE5A-905FEDDFA34A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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