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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HUBBLE
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| 04/24/07
| Alan Boyle
Posted on 04/26/2007 7:00:48 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Today marks the 17th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's "birth" in space, and in a reversal of the usual routine, it's traditional for the Hubble team to give a gift. This time, astronomers are offering a wide-angle panorama of the Carina Nebula - a blazing-hot cosmic cookery that may be much like the environment that gave rise to our own solar system.
"It's one of the biggest and brightest star-forming regions in the sky," Nathan Smith, an astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley, told me Monday. "But this is the first time we've taken a large-scale view with the Hubble Space Telescope."
(Excerpt) Read more at cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: hubble; space
To: Paul Ross; RightWhale; Brett66; xrp; gdc314; anymouse; NonZeroSum; jimkress; discostu; ...
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04/26/2007 7:01:13 PM PDT
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KevinDavis
(Man needs to reach higher and farther to accomplish the impossible.)
To: KevinDavis
That's better!
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posted on
04/26/2007 9:07:06 PM PDT
by
NonLinear
(This is something almost unknown within Washington. It's called leadership.)
To: NonLinear
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posted on
04/27/2007 9:17:08 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I last updated my profile on Thursday, April 26, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: SunkenCiv
Pollock?
Pardon?
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posted on
04/28/2007 7:39:19 PM PDT
by
NonLinear
(This is something almost unknown within Washington. It's called leadership.)
To: NonLinear
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posted on
04/28/2007 8:37:58 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I last updated my profile on Saturday, April 28, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: SunkenCiv
Ah! Learn something every day around here!
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posted on
04/29/2007 7:29:44 AM PDT
by
NonLinear
(This is something almost unknown within Washington. It's called leadership.)
To: NonLinear
aka Jack the Dripper...here he is on a USPS stamp with cigarette removed by the nico nazis.
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posted on
04/29/2007 7:36:06 AM PDT
by
xp38
To: xp38
aka Jack the Dripper..
LOL!
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posted on
04/29/2007 4:55:40 PM PDT
by
NonLinear
(This is something almost unknown within Washington. It's called leadership.)
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