Friday, November 12, 2021

The Hubble is still with us (it seems)

 

After glitching and going into safe mode several days ago, the Hubble Space Telescope appears to be recovering.  I don't know how many comebacks the old 'scope still has in it, but it's happy science news that it isn't done scanning the cosmos yet.

Hubble telescope team gets one science instrument running again, continues troubleshooting glitch


From a CNN article about Hubble's 30th anniversary, which went somewhat unnoticed in April 2020 because of the raging COVID-19 pandemic, this image of the galaxies interacting in the ARP 273 group is so amazing it's hard to comprehend that it's real.



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