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more about #hubble more comments → Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: To anstosa: " If something can't be proven. It's either wrong, or should not be treated with caution and skeptecism until it can be proven." You hit... more » Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: Beautiful. more » :negated:: I refuse to believe that any self-respecting omniscient deity would choose to live in a cloud of dust leftover from the remnants of previous generatio... more » BeyondtheTech: I looked at the title and thought "God is Home." And to think, I didn't scrub the rings around the toilet or pick up some rugelach on the way home. more » 32ndnote: To put the size of this thing into perspective, the closest star to us is about 4.22 light years away... more » CircuitMage: The meaning , of Life.... #milkywaycenter more » Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected: You know, NASA could make some serious cash selling these panoramic views of the galaxy as art prints. #milkywaycenter more » bleek: Happy birthday Astronomy :D #milkywaycenter more » OldSchoolGadgetLover: The risk of dying was 1 in 17? Screw Crab fishing and Ice Trucking. This is the deadliest job, hands down. more » phoenix6666: I saw this last night with my dad. Pretty cool but I kept wondering if perhaps NASA's objection shouldn't be tweaked slightly, especially in terms of... more » Bertone77: UPDATE: The entire 1 hour show is now available to view online at :[video.pbs.org] more » stre: one thing to note: this show isn't actually on TV today; it was on last night. if you want to see it in all it's high def glory, it looks like it wil... more » Curves: Hubble got off to a rocky start, but has certainly more than proven itself worthwhile in the long haul. It sort of endears itself because of all its ... more » Geisrud: Hmm, pretty pictures of space. Let's read through the comments...lessee here... People feeling awestruck...check Others feeling miniscule...check St... more » UlaElephenor: These photos are nice and everything but I struggle with the scale, can you put a london double-decker bus up in there to help a brother out? more » -
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God's Home
This is NGC 7023. It's also called the Iris Nebula, an immense six-light-year-across cloud of dust located in the constellation Cepheus, 1,300 light-years from planet Earth. I like to call it God's Home. Get inside with this zoom-zoom video: More » -
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Stunning Milky Way's Heart Image Combines Three Space Telescope Views In One
I've seen many amazing, inspiring, and humbling deep space images, but this look inside the heart of our very own galaxy has left me without superlatives. Zoom in to get the 2820x1409 pixel image, and see how it was made. More » -
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How They Fixed the Hubble
Hubble is alive—and delivering amazing images—after the successful mission that fixed it, the most difficult in the history of the shuttle program. Today, PBS' Nova shows it all in the Hubble's Amazing Rescue. Here's the teaser. [PBS] -
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NGC4522 Is Where God's God Lives
The new camera in the Hubble keeps sending mindblowing desktop wallpapers to Earth. This is NGC4522, a massive galaxy in the massive Virgo Cluster, where galaxies orbit around at 6.2 million miles per hour. NGC 4402 is just as impressive. More » -
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42 Shocking Discoveries the Newly-Upgraded Hubble Didn't Make
For this week's Photoshop Contest, I asked you to imagine some truly shocking discoveries that the newly-rejiggered Hubble might make. And if the stuff you guys came up with really is out there, maybe we're better off focusing on Earth. More » -
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What Sorts of Surprising Things Will the New and Improved Hubble Discover?
The newly-repaired Hubble has begun sending back some pretty extraordinary pictures. But what if it sends back some more… surprising photos? For this week's Photoshop Contest, I want you to create just that. More » -
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After Repair Mission, Hubble Delivers New Stunning Desktop Backgrounds Once Again
These are the first deep space photos sent by the Hubble after the long and risky May repair mission. Eat your heart out, Snow Leopard. This is my favorite, but there are more: More » -
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The Most Amazing Photo of the Universe, Now In 3D
Showing 10,000 galaxies, the overwhelming Hubble Ultra Deep Field is the most amazing, most humbling image in history, demonstrating how tiny and precious we are. This video explains how it was taken, and shows it in three dimensions. -
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Sharpest Photo of Jupiter's Earth-Sized Scar Taken by Hubble
Remember how Jupiter just got totally rocked by a huge object, leaving a giant scar? The Hubble team interrupted their testing of the telescope to aim its sights on this very rare sight, and captured the clearest photo yet. More » -
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'Free-Floating' Black Hole Responsible For One of Hubble's Big Discoveries?
Get Me Off This Rock is a distant memory by now, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't bring you word that one of space's most mysterious phenomena is one step closer to being solved. More » -
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Good Luck, Hubble
There she goes. The Hubble space telescope, drifting away from the Space Shuttle Atlantis after her final servicing mission last week. May her new, improved instruments deliver more incredible imagery from the cosmos. [NASA] -
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Heeeeello I'mmmmm Hubbbbleeeeee
Hubble has been fixed. Hubble has been upgraded. Hubble is happy. Look at Hubble's happy face. Hubble loves astronauts. Hubble can eat astronauts too. Hmmmm... tender juicy astronauts. [Big Picture] -
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Atlantis Crew Finishes Hubble Repairs, Celebrates With Early Morning Jam Sesh
NASA's latest Hubble repair mission was—even as orbital repair missions go—a tough one. It's great news, then, that they've finished repairing the rickety old telescope, which they'll release this morning. So they celebrated. More » -
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The Weird and Wonderful Space Tools That Fixed Hubble
If you wanted to know what the hell are all those weird space tools that astronauts seem to keep tied in a big ball of junk, you will love these beautiful pictures by Michael Soluri: More » -
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Astronauts Playing Real World Katamari Damacy In Space
I saw this picture yesterday and I just couldn't tell what the hell it was. So I read the caption and it left me even more puzzled: More » -
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Amateur Astronomer Captures Stunning Images of Atlantis, Hubble in the Face of the Sun
It's difficult to imagine a more epic scene, but this photo has modest origins: amateur Astronomer Thierry Legault shot it with nothing but his own telescope, a solar prism and a Canon 5D Mk II. More » -
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Watch the Hubble Repair Mission Live Video Feed Now
Astronauts are risking their lives, fixing the Hubble telescope right now. It's attached to the bay of the Atlantis, all big and shiny. You can see them working inside its guts here. More » -
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Most Dangerous Shuttle Mission Ever Gets Off to a Rough Start
They may have made it to space without blowing up, but just one day into their famously dangerous mission, the crew of the space shuttle Atlantis already have something to worry about: heat shield damage. More » -
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Space Shuttle Launch Live Video Coverage Here
Space week may be over, but the epic quest to reach the stars lives on. Atlantis is launching today in the riskiest shuttle mission ever. See the launch live. [Update: Atlantis is now in space] More »
