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Hubble's Upgrade: Pretty Pictures

Posted by michael on from the say-cheese dept.

EReidJ writes "The Hubble Space Telescope has come out with astonishing new pictures, our "deepest glimpse[s] into the depths of space and time". An article on the photos is here. These are striking in their beauty, and are sure to become commonplace desktop images in the next month. The official site to view all of the photos is here, but the site's already going pretty slow. washingtonpost.com has the four photos in series on its home page." There are also stories on space.com and MSNBC.

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  1. pretty pictures by trb · · Score: 1, Troll

    Does the new camera really allow astronomers to take pretty pictures that they couldn't take before, or are they just using pretty pictures as a public relations gimmick? I imagine that it's possible that a camera that was better for scientists wouldn't necessarily make the pictures prettier. "Prettier" could be accomplished with false colorings and other cheap tricks.