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After 15 Years, The Humble Space Telescope Can No Longer Be Powered Up (twitter.com)
Long-time Slashdot reader frank249 brings some news from Diana Dragomir, a Hubble Fellow at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research:
Diana Dragomir tweeted that the MOST Telescope "can no longer be powered up. It's had a long life, overshooting its planned one-year lifespan by a factor of 15!"
The MOST Space Telescope (which stands for Microvariability and Oscillation of Stars) was launched into space in 2003. It was the first Canadian scientific satellite in orbit in 33 years, and it is the first space telescope to be entirely designed and built in Canada. About the size and shape of a large suitcase, the satellite weighs only 54 kilograms and is equipped with an ultra high precision telescope that measures only 15 centimetres in diameter (thus the nickname "humble space telescope").
Despite its diminutive size, it is [was?] ten times more sensitive than the Hubble Space Telescope in detecting the minuscule variations in a star's luminosity caused by vibrations that shake its surface.
Interestingly, when the Most telescope first launched back in 2003 -- it was the same long-time Slashdot reader frank249 who submitted the story.
The MOST Space Telescope (which stands for Microvariability and Oscillation of Stars) was launched into space in 2003. It was the first Canadian scientific satellite in orbit in 33 years, and it is the first space telescope to be entirely designed and built in Canada. About the size and shape of a large suitcase, the satellite weighs only 54 kilograms and is equipped with an ultra high precision telescope that measures only 15 centimetres in diameter (thus the nickname "humble space telescope").
Despite its diminutive size, it is [was?] ten times more sensitive than the Hubble Space Telescope in detecting the minuscule variations in a star's luminosity caused by vibrations that shake its surface.
Interestingly, when the Most telescope first launched back in 2003 -- it was the same long-time Slashdot reader frank249 who submitted the story.
I suspect it's a click-bait trick. "Humble" will often be mistaken for "Hubble".
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The MOST telescope always stood in the shadows of - and deferred to - its flashier cousin Hubble. Hence its nickname, "the most humble telescope" and the entirely correct doesn't need editing no-sirree-bob Slashdot title.
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I congratulate you on being so humble.
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Not bad for an inexpensive microsatellite!
"Humble" is a long running joking nickname for the MOST telescope: https://www.astrobio.net/retro...
I mean, we know what Opportunity said, right? So come on, tell us Humble Telescope's last words. Maybe "I was a good telescope guys, please don't leave me to freeze in the dark".
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
The old Slashdot article says it was launched with a Russian vehicle called "Rockot", and people also thought that was a misspelling. So let's hear it for this telescope. In death as in life, it was so humble that it didn't even mind that Slashdot hated all the spelling and confusion that surrounded it.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Who else read this immediately assuming /. misspelled the title, only figuring it out halfway through the blurb that they were discussing MOST, not Hubble?
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