nfb: this is magnificant

[wolfdogs]

turn on your sound....

scary

awesome

http://wires.news.com.au/special/mm/030811-hubble.htm


but real!!!!!!!!!!!

[Noggin]

KICK uhhh butt

[pete]

And to think NASA won't spend a few bucks to keep Hubble up there working!

[RagtopRay]

Amazing!!

I just wonder what the next generation telescope will be able to see.

[Rhode Island Red]

Amazing!!

I just wonder what the next generation telescope will be able to see.

what new telescope? we're going to the moon again then onto mars

[Jeff_in_Atl]

I read somewhere that NASA was looking into replacing the Hubble with one more powerful. I hope so.

[95TransAm]

It is amazing. I've always loved space.
From what i've seen on the discovery channel and the science channel, the new telescope (telescopes actually) are going to make the hubble look like binoculars. Apparently, its basically going to be 7 laser guided telescopes in all working as one and placed roughly halfway the distance between earth and mars. If we are successful with this, we would be able to see geographical features on planets thousands of lightyears away in an attempt to find another "earth".

Another interesting thing is anti matter and dark matter. Anti matter as we know is completely destructive. Dark matter is the most abundant matter in the universe; 5 times more abundant than the matter we know here on earth, a.k.a. baryonic matter. Amazing thing is we can't even see it. We know it exists though due to the fact we have measured the gravitational force that dark matter gives out, and its more than any baryonic matter could withstand. As a matter of fact, in the virgo cluster, we have found a mass of hydrogen that is something like a hundred million times the mass of the sun. I'll edit my post when i get the link.

Edit:
Here's a link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/w...st/4288633.stm
If you look around at some other articles there, they also have a story about how a faded star 50,000 light years away exploded, and we felt the ripple effect of it on dec 26th or 27th. The explosion gave off more energy than our sun produces in 100,000 years in a split second Scientists say that if it happened 10 light years away, we would have been done with. Now the star has turned into a 26km core in diameter that spins a full revolution in 7.5 seconds. I'm gonna stop now cuz im an astronomy loser and could give off facts all day.

[Dave M]

It's a shame NASA has given up on the hubble. Those pictures are amazing. And in reference to the star explosion on Dec 26th, I wonder if it's any coincidence that's the same day earth had it's largest earthquake in 40 years?... causing the tsunami.