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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Telescopic Observations _ Hubble Space Telescope's amazing discoveries

Posted by: PhilCo126 Feb 5 2009, 06:27 PM

Amazing picture of NGC4921
http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/ngc_4921_gets_its_close

Posted by: nprev Feb 6 2009, 12:19 AM

Absolutely stunning!!!

Posted by: Enceladus75 Feb 6 2009, 01:32 AM

A really beautiful image. Even in its relative dotage, the HST still continues to amaze.

Now let's get that servicing mission off to Hubble without delay!

Posted by: Gladstoner Feb 9 2009, 05:54 AM

Posted by: AndyG Feb 9 2009, 10:06 AM

QUOTE (Gladstoner @ Feb 9 2009, 05:54 AM)

Crikey! Look at the dark streamers connecting a number of clusters/associations to the dust lane. They remind me of the Eagle Nebula pillars.

Beautiful - though those are hugely bigger. The pillars in the Eagle Nebula are "only" a few tens of light years.

Andy

Posted by: PhilCo126 Sep 4 2009, 10:49 AM

Thanks to the latest Hubble refurbishment, the telescope is back in business
NASA will hold news briefings at 11 a.m. and noon EDT Wednesday, Sept. 9, to release and discuss the first images from the newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope. NASA Television and the agency's Web site will provide live coverage of the briefings from NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Posted by: ustrax Dec 8 2009, 07:08 PM

And now even further back in time...
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2009/31/

Posted by: djellison Dec 8 2009, 07:20 PM

With only two days exposure, rather than two weeks of the previous HDF's.

Posted by: ugordan Dec 9 2009, 10:29 AM

Though to be honest, this shorter exposure shows noticeably higher noise than the last HUDF, but it's still pretty darn impressive.

Posted by: alan Dec 15 2009, 05:52 PM

New image of R136 region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2009/32/

Posted by: ilbasso Dec 15 2009, 09:30 PM

The Washington Post's Joel Aschenbach did an http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/30/AR2009113003590.html on the HST earlier this month, entitled "The Wow Factor."

In discussing one image of the Butterfly Nebula, he writes, "It's such a gorgeous image that we will refrain from dwelling on the extreme color enhancement that NASA uses to make these photographs so seductive. "

It is helpful to remember that we are not looking at "real" colors in these images, but they're so beautifully rendered that we want to believe that it's true color!

Posted by: ugordan Feb 2 2010, 10:02 PM

Not exactly a Hubble discovery, but a followup observation:

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2010/02feb_asteroidcollision.htm

Posted by: nprev Feb 3 2010, 12:37 AM

That's just plain amazing.

I wonder if the "Y" pattern can provide any clues about the putative impact geometry?