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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. Hubble Ultra Deep Field by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Cute picture, but still nothing compares to this. It will make you feel insignificant real quick.

    1. Re:Hubble Ultra Deep Field by xSauronx · · Score: 5, Funny
      I love how my dad, a fundy christian, looks at the deep field, and says to me "and people think there isnt life elsewhere out there, in all of that, there *has* to be", and then sees me reading "the origin of species" and tells me "you know, thats just called the theory of evolution."



      somehow he manages to believe in aliens halfway across the known universe, and that god created the earth and everything on it in 7 days. /rant over

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  2. Re:Hubble's afterlife by NoTheory · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope you realize that NASA is going to use the Hubble until the satellite falls out of space and burns up on reentry. If you can figure out how to use it after that, i'm sure NASA's got a job for you.

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  3. 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...

  4. Re:What kind of pisses me off... by slashname3 · · Score: 4, Informative

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

    Wasn't it Perkin-Elmer that built the primary mirror?

  5. 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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  6. 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.

  7. FS M82 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, you don't need more proof of His Noodliness existance than this

  8. Re:What kind of pisses me off... by dfjghsk · · Score: 5, Informative
    How did this get modded up? It's completely false.

    If you google now for "TRW Hubble" you'll find a whole bunch of articles mentioning that TRW was selected to build JWST, "Hubble replacement", but not too many mentioning that we did actually built the original Hubble.


    So either everyone is covering up the work TRW did on Hubble, or you are wrong.. I'm going to go with the latter...

    Lockheed was the primary contractor.. they produced the protective outer shroud and the support systems module, and assembled and integrated everything. Perkin-Elmer produced the mirror.

    http://www.sciencepresse.qc.ca/clafleur/HST-Histor y.html
    http://sm3a.gsfc.nasa.gov/messages/78.html
    http://www.lockheedmartin.com/wms/findPage.do?dsp= fec&ci=14783&rsbci=5&fti=0&ti=0&sc=400
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  9. Re:What kind of pisses me off... by helioquake · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Haha, FUNNY, guys and gals.

  10. Re:What kind of pisses me off... by dfjghsk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What do you want them to do; mention every contractor who worked on Hubble in every press release, announcement, or mention of hubble?

    They certainly aren't trying to hide the fact that Lockheed, Perkin-Elmer, and many other companies worked on Hubble:

    A Brief History of the Hubble Space Telescope
    The following year, design of the telescope began in earnest, with the award of contracts to the Perkin-Elmer Corporation to construct the mirror and optical assembly and the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company to construct the spacecraft and its support systems.

    NASA history: Hubble Space Telescope:
    Page 1, Paragraph 4:
    Perkin-Elmer Corporation in Danbury, Connecticut, was chosen to develop the optical system and guidance sensors. Lockheed Missiles and Space Company of Sunnyvale, California, was selected to produce the protective outer shroud and the spacecraft systems for the telescope, as well as to assemble and test the finished product.

    NASA Hubble Team Receives International Academy of Astronautics Award (2004)

    LOCKHEED MARTIN HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE TEAMS RECEIVE NASA HONORS (2005)

    A DECADE OF DISCOVERY: HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE -- THE DISCOVERIES AND THE PEOPLE (2000):
    Lockheed Martin, manufacturer of the Hubble Space Telescope, ...

    NOTE TO EDITORS: MEDIA INVITED TO JOIN IN PUBLIC CELEBRATION OF TEN YEARS OF THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE (2000):
    Lockheed Martin, manufacturer of the Hubble Space Telescope, ...

    Google search for "site:nasa.gov lockheed hubble":
    Results 1 - 10 of about 14,400 from nasa.gov

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