Saving Hubble

Posted by michael on Thursday January 22, 2004 @05:22AM from the hubba-hubba-hubble dept.

tassii writes "In this article on Space.com, Hubble Space Telescope operators plan to ask Russia for help in keeping the observatory alive and will even consider accepting private donations, which have already been offered. The upgrades are already built, waiting for installation. The Wide Field Camera 3 and the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph cost a combined $167 million and will provide unprecedented peeks into the formation of the cosmos, astronomers say. Maybe there is still some hope for the Hubble."

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Re:Just do it... by PateraSilk · 2004-01-22 05:46 · Score: 4, Interesting

why would the images be better when it leaves our solar system?
Long-baseline parallax observations of stars for more precise mapping of the local spiral arm, for one.
Possibly long-baseline infereometry, for two (although it might not work in this instance--I'm not so savvy here).

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Danke tres mucho, tovarishch.