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KeithD
20th April 2011, 22:31
....and what a great pic?

http://www1.nasa.gov/images/content/537080main_hubble-rose-4x3_946-710.jpg
JimOttley
20th April 2011, 23:38
The full aspect ratio one is better.

To me it looks more like a slightly deranged extremely happy tadpole rather than a rose as is being reported elsewhere :D

It is stunning as ever!

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5222/5638539885_daf00b83f6_b.jpg
Terpe
21st April 2011, 09:36
The Hubble telescope has been a huge success and produced some beautiful and extraordinary images with
quite a few breakthroughs in astrophysics

Can't wait to see what comes from the next leap - the James Webb Space Telescope
JimOttley
21st April 2011, 09:47
It's looking like it's been pushed back to 2017 now :(
KeithD
21st April 2011, 10:26
The full aspect ratio one is better.


:Erm: It's the same pic!!!


Can't wait to see what comes from the next leap - the James Webb Space Telescope

The JWT doesn't have an optical camera like the Hubble.
subseastu
21st April 2011, 11:06
Absolutely amazing. Makes my head hurt thinking about space / time etc. Just reading that bill bryson book "A short history of nearly everything" and the first few chapters explain all that very well but it can still make your head spin
KeithD
21st April 2011, 11:09
What is amazing about the pic is how much new star formation the interaction has started (the blue bits for those who don't know ;)) ..... starting a few billions years of millions of stars...... and likely life :xxgrinning--00xx3:
Terpe
21st April 2011, 11:57
.......The JWT doesn't have an optical camera like the Hubble.

There will be four science instruments on Webb: the Near InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), the Near InfraRed Spectrograph (NIRSpec), the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI), and the Fine Guidance Sensor Tunable Filter Camera (FGS-TFI) . Webb's instruments will be designed to work primarily in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum, with some capability in the visible range. It will be sensitive to light from 0.6 to 27 micrometers in wavelength.

Webb has four main science themes: The End of the Dark Ages: First Light and Reionization, The Assembly of Galaxies, The Birth of Stars and Protoplanetary Systems, and Planetary Systems and the Origins of Life.

Source:-
http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/about.html

Floats my boat. Exciting stuff for me. :hubbahubba:
JimOttley
21st April 2011, 13:56
:Erm: It's the same pic!!!

Yes but the first one is cropped heavily and they lose a large part of the stem of the 'Rose' at the bottom of the shot.