[TaraP]

Taken May 4th, 2009

[Rennes Templar]

Interesting post Tara but ya gotta include the pic!

[Panzerlied]

Reminds me of a novel I read in the early 50’s, “The Big Eye” by Max Erlich.

[Finalapproach29er]

Hubble was the best money Nasa has spent in the last 20 years. Outstanding photos.

More pictures please!!

[Cheetahcat]

WOW !!!!!!!

[GulfWar1Vet]

Not the first “eye” pic taken...

http://www.indiastudychannel.com/pictures/gallery/none_as_me__eye.jpg

[BILLNHILL MAKE ME ILL]

Maybe it’s one of the astronaut repairmen that took off today in the shuttle peeking into the lens...;)

[HighlyOpinionated]

What’s even “cooler” is that in the Hebrew, the Scripture translates “In the beginning, God said “Light Be.””

God never told light to stop “being” so the universe is still “being” created at the speed of sound.

Definitely we live in the coolest universe.

[B-Chan]

[Star Traveler]

Thanks for the ping to the thread.

I do hope that you and others *do realize* that these pictures are *doctored pictures* and that the agency has “colorized” them to make them look that way. These pictures that are presented here — are not — the way they really look.

In fact, I do suspect that most people would be severely disappointed in seeing what they actually looked like. Ummm..., in fact, people would probably see *nothing* when “looking” at these things.

These pictures are “artificial constructs” of how certain people (in the agency) want to portray certain elements and their radiation signatures.

The “beauty” that is seen here is sort of “subjective” in that it’s been colored that way by someone who has determined that making it look “this way” will make things look “beautiful” to most of the people looking at the photos (with their normal vision). And what you’ve got represented is “instruments” measuring certain “values” and certain “radiation” that no one can see at all.

By that, I mean, I could “colorize” the photos and probably make them look real ugly, by how I chose to portray them (in my color choices) and what elements and their radiation signatures I wanted to portray.

So — do be careful how you attribute the “beauty” to these pictures — because you might just be attributing to the “beauty” — more or less — to the choices of the colorizer (i.e., the people who do this) of the photo and what elements they chose to represent here.

[Wyatt's Torch]

I've always liked this one:

[dalereed]

Are you sure they didn't snap a picture of the guy's eye that was cleaning the lens?

[WVKayaker]

...For the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft another fate lies in store. Hurtling along at immense speeds, these spacecraft are heading out of the solar system. It’s taken a long time, but Voyager 1, the fastest of all these probes, is now over 100 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is. It takes about 14 hours for the signals to get back to the Earth from this far off probe. Already it has passed some of the boundaries of the solar system – it is further away then the recently discovered Sedna for instance. It has passed the termination shock and is coasting through the heliosheath and will at some point head into interstellar space. Because of this more dignified way of finishing their missions, the Voyager spacecraft were fitted with golden discs containing sound and visual information about Earth. The discs were intended as part message, and part time capsule. Although the possibility is extremely remote an alien civilisation could find these probes, but perhaps it will be humans of the future who finally manage to catch up with these distant emissaries of Earth.

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