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Upgraded Hubble To Be 90 Times As Powerful

Posted by kdawson on from the new-glasses-and-oh-here's-your-binoculars dept.

The feed brings us a New Scientist review of the repairs and new instruments that astronauts will bring to the Hubble Space Telescope next August (unless the launch is delayed). The resulting instrument will be 90 times as powerful as Hubble was designed to be when launched, and 60% more capable than it was after its flawed optics were repaired in 1993. If the astronauts pull it off — and the mission is no slam-dunk — the space telescope should be able to image galaxies back to 400 million years after the Big Bang.

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  1. Red shift balls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    >> 400 million years after the Big Bang

    That's about how long it feels like it's been since my last big bang.

    1. Re:Red shift balls by Vskye · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's about how long it feels like it's been since my last big bang.

      Got married didn't ya. :)
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  2. Pictures smictures... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can it or can it not fry people like ants under a magnifying glass.

    That's what we want to know.

  3. Re:Awesome! by Cassius+Corodes · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was sort of disappointed when I found that out... Wait till you find out that the visible spectrum is artificially coloured by human vision.
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  4. What's a bang? by mi · · Score: 4, Funny

    You, insensitive clod!

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    1. Re:What's a bang? by Jesus_666 · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's the second character in a shell script.

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  5. What Big Bang? by Swampash · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Earth is only 6,000 years old. Mike Huckabee wouldn't lie to me.

  6. Re:Was Hubble worth it? by SL+Baur · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only solving overpopulation is going to improve lives. This is slashdot and that problem has already been solved here. Next?
  7. Re:Awesome! by CaptnMArk · · Score: 2, Funny

    They are very interesting, just not visible.