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Hubble fixed and showing snaps

And they said it couldn't be done
Friday, 31 October 2008, 09:23

THE US SPACE telescope Hubble has managed to get its 486 vintage PC up and running... and to prove it has sent back data on a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies called Arp 147.

Hubble had been offline and technicians fought to switch it off and switch it on again. When that didn’t work they fired up a back-up computer which had not been turned on for over a decade.

Now it seems that everything is going well with the prime working camera, the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, is taking some jolly nice pictures.

Arp 147 appears in the Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, compiled by Halton Arp. While all this sounds like a book you might see in the library of Hogwarts, we are assured that it was published in 1966.

Arp 147 lies in the constellation of Cetus, more than 400 million light-years away from Earth or 2.332 seconds by Tardis.µ

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posted by : Liam O'Flaherty, 31 October 2008 Complain about this comment
Feb Mission Canceled

Dosn't it seem like NASA turned on & off backup about thousand times, then it worked. Well after digesting data NASA feels Feb fix for Hubble is too soon to prepare new equipment.

Poor Hubbie, Age Matters. Star Group is called 10, because left side looks like 1 & rest make 0. Also hubbie got 10 for being right on track.

Now if center of universe is 14 billion years away & our solar system is 4 billions of years old, dosn't that mean theres additional 4 billion years of Universe out past us, from center or 18 billion years old Universe in total. 

thats why I Bought my Ph.b 
Moon Spinner drashek

posted by : EyeN'Sky, 31 October 2008 Complain about this comment
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