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Hubble's Shining View Of Deep Space Beyond The Stars
Forbes ^ | 26 Dec, 2016 | Ethan Siegel

Posted on 12/27/2016 4:52:59 PM PST by MtnClimber

From any point on Earth's surface, a clear night sky reveals a treasure trove of stars and deep-sky objects.

Through a powerful telescope, billions of objects become visible, from stars and nebulae to the galaxies beyond our own.

With the success of the Hubble deep fields in revealing distant, hitherto unseen galaxies, 2010 brought a new camera and a new ambition.

The installation of the Wide Field Camera 3 enabled simultaneously large, deep views of space as never before.

The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) began with this 2010 mosaic, which stitched together hundreds of images in visible and infrared light.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: hubble
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1 posted on 12/27/2016 4:52:59 PM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Lots of great photos. Don’t stop just because you hit an ad. The articles and photos continue for a while.

Can’t wait to see what the James Webb Telescope will do.


2 posted on 12/27/2016 4:54:50 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

There is more beyond us than among us ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PuTUj0EnlM


3 posted on 12/27/2016 4:57:42 PM PST by soycd
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To: MtnClimber

I look at even one picture of all those galaxies and am reminded how incredible our Creator is. We cannot even fathom His Power and Greatness.


4 posted on 12/27/2016 5:00:26 PM PST by Fungi (Having my fungus and eating it too.)
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To: MtnClimber

Too awesome to comprehend.


5 posted on 12/27/2016 5:02:50 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: MtnClimber; All

IMAX Hubble 2010 The Orion Nebulahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNG2hZVINUQ


6 posted on 12/27/2016 5:04:06 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: MtnClimber; All

Gigapixels of Andromeda [4K]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udAL48P5NJU


7 posted on 12/27/2016 5:05:09 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: Fungi

Amen to that! Unless you’re an atheist, then it’s all just random bacteria or something.


8 posted on 12/27/2016 5:06:53 PM PST by stevio (God,Guns,Guts.)
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To: Fungi

“Then sings my soul my Savior God to thee
“How Great Thou Art!”


9 posted on 12/27/2016 5:15:42 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: MtnClimber

Images from the Webb Hubbel telescope are all blurred because it keeps rolling over.


10 posted on 12/27/2016 5:17:31 PM PST by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Fungi

Very well said. Given a future eternity in which to explore and learn of His Power and Greatness, among His innumerable virtues, I suggest we will never fully appreciate them.


11 posted on 12/27/2016 5:18:56 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: MtnClimber
Direct link to HubbleSite.org.
12 posted on 12/27/2016 5:21:46 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: lonevoice

WOW!


13 posted on 12/27/2016 5:25:44 PM PST by Pride in the USA
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To: Hebrews 11:6

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is due to launch in 2018. It will primarily study infrared (IR) light and will have a huge sunshade to keep the telescope cold which is important for making infrared measurements.

The segmented mirror lens is 2.5 times larger in diameter, or about six times larger in area than Hubble’s primary lens. The IR Focal Plane Detector will be about 1,000 times more sensitive than Hubble in the IR spectrum. The overall weight of the telescope will be much lighter due to ultra-thin, ultra-lightweight mirror segments that were unavailable when Hubble was built.


14 posted on 12/27/2016 5:50:41 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: dp0622

Yes, seeing a picture of another galaxy 10 billion light years away is to much to comprehend. My childhood textbooks had blurry images of Saturn and Jupiter and we were amazed, and that wasn’t that long ago!


15 posted on 12/27/2016 5:52:29 PM PST by Arkansas Tider (Army EOD (Ret))
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To: MtnClimber

Certainly worth looking forward to. Let’s hope they don’t mess it up like they did the Hubble at first!


16 posted on 12/27/2016 5:54:15 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: MtnClimber

MtnClimber,

This is all fake. (Said with a calm voice.) No offense to you.

The Bible portrays our world as being enclosed in a vaulted dome. The Bible says our Creator made the stars and placed them in the dome.

In a world covered with a dome, there can be no Hubble telescope in orbit.

This business of trillions of distant stars light-years away is perhaps the biggest deception of all time. It is propaganda whose purpose is to hide our Creator.

Note the absence of a sarcasm tag.


17 posted on 12/27/2016 6:16:56 PM PST by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: MtnClimber

This does nothing to make Muslims feel good about themselves.


18 posted on 12/27/2016 6:43:21 PM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: ModelBreaker

I composed a bunch of replies to another post on the thread, and junked all of them. ‘How Great thou Art’ is a perfect encapsulation of where my heart was.

We have places to go and people to meet.


19 posted on 12/27/2016 6:51:58 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Hebrews 11:6
As a layman I gave a sermon once. Had a huge poster made from one of the Hubble images and read scripture talking about God's love and power.

One of the things I mentioned was - looking at the Hubble image with hundreds of galaxies - it was like God was throwing His arms up saying “I love you THIS much!”

20 posted on 12/27/2016 7:02:50 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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