It's been quite a year for Hubble! New galaxies, colliding stars and more... Check out the magnificent views through NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, released in 2008.
Posted on 12/16/2008 7:24:00 PM PST by neverdem
It's been quite a year for Hubble! New galaxies, colliding stars and more... Check out the magnificent views through NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, released in 2008.
Above, Hubble discovers carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star, an important step along the trail of finding the chemical biotracers of extraterrestrial life as we know it. The Jupiter-sized planet, called HD 189733b, is too hot for life. But the Hubble observations are a proof-of-concept demonstration that the basic chemistry for life can be measured on planets orbiting other stars. Organic compounds can also be a by-product of life processes, and their detection on an Earth-like planet may someday provide the first evidence of life beyond Earth. Credits: NASA, ESA, and M. Swain (Jet Propulsion Lab/Caltech) Published: 12/15/2008 17:05:28
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
“That isn’t a real photo; it’s an “artist’s rendering”.”
Solely an artist’s rendering, or a scientist working with an artist to give the best interpretation of what we’re seeing?
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Bookmarking to wait for the source.
LOL, you're hilarious!
Here’s where I found them:
I’m sorry I forgot the URL. Whenever you see an error of forgetting a URL, then wrap the title in quotation marks, e.g. “Hubble’s most amazing images from 2008” after putting it in a search engine. Yahoo or Google should find it. I was busy on another thread. What if I dropped dead? The thread has been linked.
Thank you.
Then we would never be able to see the other 41 pictures. ;-)
Thanks for the link.
....gettin a little ahead of ourselves, aren't we?
He'd probably fall to the ground:)
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I didn’t complain about the missing link (for what it’s worth, I already knew how to find it) but I certainly hope you don’t drop dead. I used to work for a guy who would complain anytime I failed to write something down. “I don’t care if you know,” he’d say, “I don’t know. What if you get hit by a truck?” I never got hit by a truck, but I did get tired of his excessive supervision and found another job.
Merry Christmas, and try not to get hit by a truck in the coming new year.
A bit of the mind-changing power of Hubble is the almost un-countable number of galaxies (not stars -- I count only a handful) in this image. Yet, it reveals only an area of our sky smaller than that of a pinhead -- held at arm's length...
When you realize that we in the northern hemisphere can only see two galaxies (our own "milky Way" and M31 in Andromeda) with our unaided eyes, you can begin to appreciate how tremendously Hubble has expanded our visible universe!
Yes it had been linked in a subsequent reply .. calm down, nobody is holding the 'missing link' against you.
We were able to see the 42 magnificent 2008 Hubble photos of our Cosmos in great detail, and marveled at them all :)
And OK, to some of the sarcastic comments about "Photoshop" and "NASA creates nice colors" and such and such smarmy comments ... so what? Have we become so politically cynical that we discard the wonders of God's creation just because its data has been transformed into a visual form which we are able to view on a computer screen? And on that note, isn't what we're doing here just a bunch of 1's and 0's transformed into letters and words which we happen to recognize, as humans?
Just as a point of perspective regarding *reality* vs. our experience of it, an Atom is composed mostly of empty space, so hence a 'solid' isn't really solid at all .. it is mostly empty space, with invisible subatomic forces making up what we might see and feel as being "solid".
NASA's Hubble continues to beam back spectacular photos of our Cosmos, and I thank you, Neverdem, for posting this thread.
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LOL, the same to you.
If you enjoyed these Hubble images, I suggest you get into the habit of visiting APOD. And for an almost endless sequence of such wonders, visit the APOD Archives.
I agree with you about "the wonders of God's creation". however I do deplore the fact that at least two "Photoshop creations" (the one on the article's main page and #30) were mixed in with the genuine Hubble images.)
Our Creator's handiwork definitely does not need "Photoshopping" to be spectacularly and awesomely beautiful!
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