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To: Beowulf9
Aren't they wonderful? I created a screensaver of them for my comp several years ago. 265 of them; the best views in the uni (multi) verse!

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

22 posted on 12/18/2010 11:33:28 PM PST by HeartlandOfAmerica (Obama and the Dem Congress will spend $5 trillion every year of his presidency until they break US!)
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica

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.


23 posted on 12/19/2010 12:06:45 AM PST by AZLiberty (Yes, Mr. Lennon, I do want a revolution.)
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