Comments on: Hubble is GO! http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/31/hubble-is-go/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:14:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: eryncweerve http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/31/hubble-is-go/#comment-96104 eryncweerve Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:38:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/31/hubble-is-go/#comment-96104 With the "No-download play online slot machine games" option, you can play online slot machine games while everyone else is wasting time downloading theirs! [url=http://9999host.com/gaslot]fun slot games[/url] With the “No-download play online slot machine games” option, you can play online slot machine games while everyone else is wasting time downloading theirs! [url=http://9999host.com/gaslot]fun slot games[/url]

]]> By: Things You Should Read On the Internet | Cosmic Variance http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/31/hubble-is-go/#comment-22977 Things You Should Read On the Internet | Cosmic Variance Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:30:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/31/hubble-is-go/#comment-22977 [...] but this one and this one ain’t too shabby. The big news this week was that there will be a servicing mission to HST, which should keep it alive for several more years. I have slightly mixed feelings about this. HST [...] […] but this one and this one ain’t too shabby. The big news this week was that there will be a servicing mission to HST, which should keep it alive for several more years. I have slightly mixed feelings about this. HST […]

]]> By: Dr Doug http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/31/hubble-is-go/#comment-22976 Dr Doug Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:37:38 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/31/hubble-is-go/#comment-22976 Phil: My recollection is that the FGS's have lenses or at least Koester's prisms in the optical path. Otherwise, no. The COSTAR 'contact lens' is all mirrors. Barb McCulski did call Hubble a "techno-turkey" when the aberration problem was discovered, but since COSTAR she has been supportive, I'll admit. Phil: My recollection is that the FGS’s have lenses or at least Koester’s prisms in the optical path. Otherwise, no. The COSTAR ‘contact lens’ is all mirrors. Barb McCulski did call Hubble a “techno-turkey” when the aberration problem was discovered, but since COSTAR she has been supportive, I’ll admit.

]]> By: Things You Should Read On the Internet | Cosmic Variance http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/31/hubble-is-go/#comment-22975 Things You Should Read On the Internet | Cosmic Variance Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:10:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/31/hubble-is-go/#comment-22975 [...] An archive of the Top 100 Images from the Hubble Space Telescope. This one is my favorite: but this one and this one ain’t too shabby. The big news this week was that there will be a servicing mission to HST, which should keep it alive for several more years. I have slightly mixed feelings about this. HST has been an amazing instrument, and I was pushing to save it from my earliest blogging days. It does cost money, though, and NASA is in the midst of a budget crisis that is leading it to dismantle much of its astrophysics program. I was part of the committee that set up the original Beyond Einstein program, which proposed a program consisting of five near-term and mid-term missions: Constellation-X (an X-ray satellite), LISA (gravitational waves), Dark Energy Explorer (using either supernovae or weak lensing), Inflation Probe (looking for tensor modes in the CMB), and Black Hole Finder. Now we have a National Academies panel that will be looking over all of these to decide which one of them to actually go forward with. Still, the money spent on science is not a zero-sum game, so I’m happy to see Hubble saved for a while. [...] […] An archive of the Top 100 Images from the Hubble Space Telescope. This one is my favorite: but this one and this one ain’t too shabby. The big news this week was that there will be a servicing mission to HST, which should keep it alive for several more years. I have slightly mixed feelings about this. HST has been an amazing instrument, and I was pushing to save it from my earliest blogging days. It does cost money, though, and NASA is in the midst of a budget crisis that is leading it to dismantle much of its astrophysics program. I was part of the committee that set up the original Beyond Einstein program, which proposed a program consisting of five near-term and mid-term missions: Constellation-X (an X-ray satellite), LISA (gravitational waves), Dark Energy Explorer (using either supernovae or weak lensing), Inflation Probe (looking for tensor modes in the CMB), and Black Hole Finder. Now we have a National Academies panel that will be looking over all of these to decide which one of them to actually go forward with. Still, the money spent on science is not a zero-sum game, so I’m happy to see Hubble saved for a while. […]

]]> By: Elisha Polomski http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/31/hubble-is-go/#comment-22974 Elisha Polomski Fri, 03 Nov 2006 03:16:50 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/31/hubble-is-go/#comment-22974 owlbear said: "Its really a waste of money and an unnecessary risk. Hubble has been up now 16 years. Spitzer is online doing great, The Keck Interferometer is able to get better pictures, Webb is coming in 2013, and there is good chance Hubble will die in the next 3 years no matter what NASA does. Hubble has been a glorious success, but it time to let go." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I must kindly disagree You really cannot compare HST to any ground or space based telescope. -I work on the spitzer project, it operates at wavelengths that HST cannot attain-and it has a very limited lifetime, in a couple years its cryogens will run out and most of its instruments will be unusable. It doesnt orbit the Earth so it is not serviceable. Its a "once-off" and really cannot be considered a replacement for HST in any way! Keck , last I checked was out of operation due to the recent Earthquake, and can only observe a limited portion of the sky. The interferometer is AMAZING when it works. It doesnt work for all objects, or at all wavelengths. Its a nice dream to think Webb will really happen by 2013. Spitzer was originally conceived about 30 *YEARS* ago. I sadly doubt Webb will be up by 2013. Hst has diffraction limited optical imaging that exceeds most Earth based telescopes and can integrate longer, and can observe anywhere in the ENTIRE sky. I sincerely hope we service it before its orbit decays, upgrading the STIS instrument would be nice also. Its not possible to observe at those wavelengths with ground based telescopes. owlbear said:
“Its really a waste of money and an unnecessary risk. Hubble has been up now 16 years. Spitzer is online doing great, The Keck Interferometer is able to get better pictures, Webb is coming in 2013, and there is good chance Hubble will die in the next 3 years no matter what NASA does. Hubble has been a glorious success, but it time to let go.”
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I must kindly disagree You really cannot compare HST to any ground or space based telescope.
-I work on the spitzer project, it operates at wavelengths
that HST cannot attain-and it has a very limited lifetime, in a couple years its cryogens
will run out and most of its instruments will be unusable.
It doesnt orbit the Earth so it is not serviceable. Its a “once-off” and really cannot be
considered a replacement for HST in any way!

Keck , last I checked was out of operation due to the recent Earthquake, and can only observe
a limited portion of the sky. The interferometer is AMAZING when it works.
It doesnt work for all objects, or at all wavelengths.

Its a nice dream to think Webb will really happen by 2013. Spitzer was originally conceived
about 30 *YEARS* ago. I sadly doubt Webb will be up by 2013.

Hst has diffraction limited optical imaging that exceeds most Earth based telescopes
and can integrate longer, and can observe anywhere in the ENTIRE sky.
I sincerely hope we service it before its orbit decays, upgrading the STIS instrument would be nice also. Its not possible to observe at those wavelengths with ground based telescopes.

]]> By: its about time» Blog Archive » links for 2006-11-01 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/31/hubble-is-go/#comment-22973 its about time» Blog Archive » links for 2006-11-01 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:46:19 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/31/hubble-is-go/#comment-22973 [...] Bad Astronomy Blog » Hubble is GO! YAY HUBBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (tags: hubble telescope astronomy nasa science) [...] […] Bad Astronomy Blog » Hubble is GO! YAY HUBBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (tags: hubble telescope astronomy nasa science) […]

]]> By: Irishman http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/31/hubble-is-go/#comment-22952 Irishman Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:04:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/10/31/hubble-is-go/#comment-22952 Regarding Bush I's space initiative, he ponied up the plan, but Congress never ponied up the budget, so it died quietly. Congress seems to be falling in line with Bush II's space initiative, so it appears to be happening. Regarding Bush I’s space initiative, he ponied up the plan, but Congress never ponied up the budget, so it died quietly. Congress seems to be falling in line with Bush II’s space initiative, so it appears to be happening.

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