[OldDeckHand]

Fascinating stuff. Hubble, despite it's mechanical failings, has really proved to be invaluable scientifically.

[The KG9 Kid]

... and it keeps on ticking.

I don't think there's any of the last Shuttle missions planned for servicing Hubble before the program ends this year.

[BlueStateBlues]

The next space telescope, James Webb, will see even further than this, if my memory is correct.

[Born to Conserve]

Old news.

[Brugmansian]

Monsignor Georges Lemaître, the father of the Big Bang theory of the creation of the universe, was asked once by a fellow scientist if astrophysics reminded him of God.

The Catholic priest said no, the science which reminds him of God is psychology.

Wow...

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Awesome.

[CharlesWayneCT]

When did the universe add 10 billion years? Or is this just another case where what we were taught as fact really wasn’t?

[Daffynition]

While I'm a huge fan of space exploration and astrophysics, I think another voice should be heard ... the video is 18 minutes long but well worth a look for anyone hooked on exploration.

Dr. Robert Ballard's [geophysicist by training] contention is that 1/10th of 1% of what we've seen under the ocean is unmapped and unexplored. Of course, it's a self-serving opinion for more funding, but some of his *accidental* discoveries have rocked the scientific world.

Dr. Bob Ballard bio:

From an early age, Robert Ballard was intrigued by the deep. He's perhaps best-known for his work in underwater archaeology; in addition to Titanic, he has found the wrecks of the Bismarck, the USS Yorktown, the nuclear sub Thresher (on a top-secret mission for the Navy -- for which the Titanic was his cover story) and John F. Kennedy's PT-109.

His contributions to our scientific knowledge of the ocean is just as awe-inspiring. He was in the first team of humans to view the deep-sea vents, and to understand how life can not only survive but thrive in these deep black waters, under extreme pressure and at extreme temperature.

He's also a powerful storyteller and a passionate scientific educator. He founded the Institute for Exploration and has pioneered distance learning in classrooms around the world. Through his JASON Project, 1.7 million students a year join scientists virtually as they experience the thrill of exploration and discovery.

[Lancey Howard]

"This makes Hubble a powerful 'time machine' that allows astronomers to see galaxies as they were 13 billion years ago -- just 600 million to 800 million years after the Big Bang," the institute said in a statement released Tuesday.

What will these vain morons say when Hubble looks 14 billion years into the past? Then 15 billion? Oops?