Posted on 12/18/2010 7:14:46 PM PST by Beowulf9
Best Art in the Universe? Hubble Space Telescope's Amazing Pics From 2010
(Dec. 15) -- You might think that taking highly detailed photographs of the darkest corners of the universe would be a purely scientific job. Turns out, there's an art to it.
For the past 20 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has been orbiting the planet and wowing earthlings with breathtaking images of outer space, from jaw-dropping pictures of clusters of newborn stars to fantastic photos of colliding galaxies.
But it's not just Hubble's cutting-edge optics that are responsible for these stunning photographs. Behind each image is the hard work of a team of researchers in Baltimore, who balance art and astronomy to capture out-of-this-world pictures that further our knowledge of outer space.
Look like my colonoscopy photos taken last week. Gee, didn’t know my insides were so pretty.
IMO everyone should take a week or so and go out to the Hubble site and flip through the images. They're magnificent.
They better not pull Hubble down until they got something better to replace it with. Hubble's given us a mind-boggling amount of knowledge about the solar system and the universe that we can get from no other source.
Godspeed
HoA
My UCLA astrophysicist son tells me that new ground-based telescopes will soon outdo Hubble, except in the x-ray band, where the atmosphere is too absorptive. Computational methods can now correct for the distorting effects of the atmosphere in real time. Soon you’ll be able to do Hubble-like photos using larger mirrors that you couldn’t possibly launch into space.
That is amazing but I totally see a face in that picture. Just imagination I know but it’s so clear to me. A man, mouth open.
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