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Hubble's Deepest Pictures Yet
MrBook2 writes "NASA have just released the Ultra Deep Field (UDF). This image took 800 exposures and clocked in at 11.3 days (!) of exposure time. This image is deeper than the Hubble Deep Field which has yielded a vast amount of knowledge. So, why exactly was it that NASA wanted to scrap the Hubble?"
Huh. I was expecting a photo of Kant, Descartes and Hobbes arguing on the Moon or something.
--- Ban humanity.
If you look carefully at the top left quadrant, you can see what appears to be Captain Kirk arguing with God.
And I thought my shiny new Minolta could do elite long-exposure photo's!
-raz
"I shoot troubles with a jackhammer"
You'd hope that with something that large it would be able to go deep...
huh?
~.Evanrude
hubble has got some huge mirrors....maybe we should look into turning the to-be retired telescope into a high powered laser. we could pick off distant planets that we dont like, or perhaps when (notice i said when) we find bin laden we could use it to cook his ass from space. i guess the only question you really have to ask is: why wouldn't we want a super high powered laser floating in space?
Damn straight, several extra billion dollars a year would make me a very happy Boing.
Oh, did you mean Boeing?
which one of those flashes of light is the webserver going up the flames?
they are looking for sco code in linux
It wasn't easy, but with those 11.3 MB images and all thos cool hi-res videos. WE have finally done it. NASA beware the power of ./
If Slashdot was around in ancient time, we would have called this the slashcratia (cratia coming from the latin POWER)
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity
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Thanks hubblesite, you guys made my day. Now when I look at my five year old system that can barely run WarCraft III, I'll remember that it's one of the few computers in the world able to handle this image. ;)
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." -Stephen Hawking
I'd much rather see that Hubble money going into invading random countries here on Earth. Hell, don't they know that space is just a illusion by the Devil to convince us the world is more than six thousand years old?
The flag just makes more sense than the constitution. - Judas Gutenberg
The telescope at the top of the space elevator.
Analysis suggests two-dimensional limitation on thought.
I suggest me adds it to his campaign platform: keep Hubble, scrap the humans-on-mars-by-way-of-the-moon fantasy, bring stem cell research back to the US, and teach all the children how to pronounce nuclear properly.