Starry-Eyed Hubble Celebrates 20 Years Of Awe And Discovery
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Hubblecast 36: "Gifts from the sky - Honouring 20 years of Hubble Space Telescope".
The best recognised, longest-lived and most prolific space observatory zooms past a milestone of 20 years of operation. On 24 April 1990, the Space Shuttle and crew of STS-31 were launched to deploy the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope into a low-Earth orbit. What followed was one of the most remarkable sagas of the space age.
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Hubbles unprecedented capabilities have made it one of the most powerful science instruments ever conceived by humans, and certainly the one most embraced by the public. Hubbles discoveries have revolutionised nearly all areas of current astronomical research, from planetary science to cosmology. And, its pictures are unmistakably out of this world.
At times Hubbles starry odyssey has played out like a space soap opera: with broken equipment, a bleary-eyed primary mirror and even a Space Shuttle rescue/repair mission cancellation. But the ingenuity and dedication of Hubble scientists, engineers, and NASA and ESA astronauts have allowed the observatory to rebound time and time again. Its crisp vision continues to challenge scientists with exciting new surprises and to enthral the public with ever more evocative colour images.
NASA, ESA and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) are celebrating Hubbles journey of exploration with a stunning new picture. Another exciting component of the anniversary will be the launch of the revamped European website for Hubble ( http://www.spacetelescope.org/ ). ESA will also be sponsoring the Hubble Pop Culture Contest that calls for fans to search for examples of the observatorys presence in everyday life ( http://www.spacetelescope.org/projects/20anniversary/hubblepopculture/ ).
The brand new Hubble anniversary image highlights a small portion of one of the largest observable regions of starbirth in the galaxy, the Carina Nebula. Towers of cool hydrogen laced with dust rise from the wall of the nebula. The scene is reminiscent of Hubbles classic Pillars of Creation photo from 1995, but even more striking in appearance. The image captures the top of a pillar of gas and dust, three light-years tall, which is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars. The pillar is also being pushed apart from within, as infant stars buried inside it fire off jets of gas that can be seen streaming from towering peaks like arrows sailing through the air.
To date, Hubble has looked at over 30 000 celestial targets and amassed over half a million pictures in its archive. The last heroic astronaut-servicing mission to Hubble in May 2009 made the telescope 100 times more powerful than when it was launched. In addition to its irreplaceable scientific importance, Hubble brings cosmic wonders into millions of homes and schools every day. For the past 20 years the public has become co-explorers with this wondrous observatory.
• http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1007/
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Hubblecast 36: "Gifts from the sky - Honouring 20 years of Hubble Space Telescope".
The best recognised, longest-lived and most prolific space observatory zooms past a milestone of 20 years of operation. On 24 April 1990, the Space Shuttle and crew of STS-31 were launched to deploy the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope into a low-Earth orbit. What followed was one of the most remarkable sagas of the space age.
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Hubbles unprecedented capabilities have made it one of the most powerful science instruments ever conceived by humans, and certainly the one most embraced by the public. Hubbles discoveries have revolutionised nearly all areas of current astronomical research, from planetary science to cosmology. And, its pictures are unmistakably out of this world.
At times Hubbles starry odyssey has played out like a space soap opera: with broken equipment, a bleary-eyed primary mirror and even a Space Shuttle rescue/repair mission cancellation. But the ingenuity and dedication of Hubble scientists, engineers, and NASA and ESA astronauts have allowed the observatory to rebound time and time again. Its crisp vision continues to challenge scientists with exciting new surprises and to enthral the public with ever more evocative colour images.
NASA, ESA and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) are celebrating Hubbles journey of exploration with a stunning new picture. Another exciting component of the anniversary will be the launch of the revamped European website for Hubble ( http://www.spacetelescope.org/ ). ESA will also be sponsoring the Hubble Pop Culture Contest that calls for fans to search for examples of the observatorys presence in everyday life ( http://www.spacetelescope.org/projects/20anniversary/hubblepopculture/ ).
The brand new Hubble anniversary image highlights a small portion of one of the largest observable regions of starbirth in the galaxy, the Carina Nebula. Towers of cool hydrogen laced with dust rise from the wall of the nebula. The scene is reminiscent of Hubbles classic Pillars of Creation photo from 1995, but even more striking in appearance. The image captures the top of a pillar of gas and dust, three light-years tall, which is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars. The pillar is also being pushed apart from within, as infant stars buried inside it fire off jets of gas that can be seen streaming from towering peaks like arrows sailing through the air.
To date, Hubble has looked at over 30 000 celestial targets and amassed over half a million pictures in its archive. The last heroic astronaut-servicing mission to Hubble in May 2009 made the telescope 100 times more powerful than when it was launched. In addition to its irreplaceable scientific importance, Hubble brings cosmic wonders into millions of homes and schools every day. For the past 20 years the public has become co-explorers with this wondrous observatory.
• http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1007/
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Useless superstition still holds billions in its grasp. Its embarassing and ridiculous.
Of that false god;
Academia,
All would seem like children
To the blind clergy.
Arrogance is the damned child
Of science and atheism.
And I would fear for them
That in all they condemn
Our power destroys nature's sewing
With knowledge of almighty fission
Because they are all knowing
But without a vision
Of that false god;//
Academia,//
All would seem like children//
To the blind clergy.//
Arrogance is the damned child//
Of science and atheism.//
And I would fear for them//
That in all they condemn //
Our power destroys nature's sewing//
With knowledge of almighty fission//
Because they are all knowing//
But without a vision//
Of that false god;//
Academia,//
All would seem like children//
To the blind clergy.//
Arrogance is the damned child//
Of science and atheism.//
And I would fear for them//
That in all they condemn //
Our power destroys nature's sewing//
With knowledge of almighty fission//
Because they are all knowing//
But without a vision//
Of that false god;//
Academia,//
All would seem like children//
To the blind clergy.//
Arrogance is the damned child//
Of science and atheism.//
And I would fear for them//
That in all they condemn //
Our power destroys nature's sewing//
With knowledge of almighty fission//
Because they are all knowing//
But without a vision//
Here is a man who would support searching the cosmos for something he neither knows nor wants, but cannot accept people who search their hearts for what they can understand and need.
Reverse that last part. Sorry, so much time and so little to do.
Wait, reverse that too.
Why? People starve everyday. People are desperate and alone everyday. Religion has worked to ease that suffering, while the greatest scientific minds watch the cosmos even though they can not so much as move a single particle of stellar dust a centimeter where they're looking rather than spending their talent helping those who need their resources of intellect today. I LOVE science, don't get me wrong. I indulge in knowing how the cosmos work like we all do here. I enjoy it.
And is a false purpose beneficial? When your purpose is made up stories and lies, dont you waste your life?
Religion is superstition. We are prone to superstition because of our pattern seeking thinking and vivid imagination. With proper education we can understand this and not be fooled by our own imagination.
You´re joking right? Or did you not paid attention during historylessons? Coopernicus, Galileo Galilei and many others had to fear for their lives because their observations and writings did not conform with the religious dogma´s. Stamcell research in the USA is difficult if not impossible because of religious dogmatism.