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Hubble Space Telescope's Sixteenth Anniversary

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the eye-in-the-sky dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This week marks the sixteenth anniversary of the launch of Hubble Space Telescope. 'To celebrate [...] NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), are releasing this image of the magnificent starburst galaxy, Messier 82 (M82). This mosaic image is the sharpest wide-angle view ever obtained of M82. The galaxy is remarkable for its bright blue disk, webs of shredded clouds, and fiery-looking plumes of glowing hydrogen blasting out of its central regions.' Wired News also has some nice additional images."

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  1. Re:What kind of pisses me off... by helioquake · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I dunno.

    If I were the guy who built the original primary mirror, I wouldn't want the world to know...

  2. There's a REALLY good book waiting to be written by bobcardone · · Score: 5, Insightful

    About the concept, design, development, engineering, construction, deployment, repair and usage of this wonderful device.
    Let's hope it takes a while before the last chapter is written...

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    What, me worry?
  3. Re:What kind of pisses me off... by helioquake · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I went for funny and I got "insightful"...

    Man, I suck at funny.

  4. Re:Hubble Ultra Deep Field by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I love that picture -- it's one of my desktops -- but it doesn't make me feel insignificant at all. It makes me feel pretty damn proud to be a member of the species that can not only see things like that, but make at least a good attempt at understanding them.

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    The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
  5. Re:What kind of pisses me off... by helioquake · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Haha, FUNNY, guys and gals.