Comments on: Hubble celebrates 20 years in space with a jaw-dropper

By: Doingitwronf

Doingitwronf — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:59:09 +0000

@Lee Stevens

As a link above described, the colors are assigned to let us see what we normally can’t. Since they never mention it except in a caption below the images, it’s understandable that it seems a bit underhanded. But the value in this is not pretty pictures. The analysis of these photographs allows scientists to learn even more about the laws that govern the universe. And while such missions come with a great monetary cost, the scientific data and findings are arguably worth that price tag.

By: Lee Stevens

Lee Stevens — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:27:53 +0000

The colors are all added based on data from the image but that doesn’t mean when anywhere close to what is being photographed that’s what it really will look like. The public likes it and keeps selling very expensive missions ,like 1 billion for 1 satellite to lap Jupiter thirty times.

By: kt+

kt+ — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 23:00:43 +0000

Does anyone else see Zues or a bear/lion?

By: Your mother

Your mother — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:32:44 +0000

It looks like Buffalo

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 07:34:12 +0000

So did anyone else think that looks like Space Jam?

By: aretheyrealorcontrived

aretheyrealorcontrived — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 02:05:54 +0000

i hate those stupid lens flare/star bursts

By: Chimacintosh

Chimacintosh — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 20:27:49 +0000

The heat is still expanding from the birth of the universe,
Time and space wrapped together uncursed.
While other dimensions weave in and out of our space,
Yet our life continues-the humble human race.

By: Wood Gas

Wood Gas — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:13:50 +0000

I see the angry alien riding a grizzly, next to a bison and calf with a baboon and baby in the fore ground. But, then again,the sixties were very good to me.

How does this much gas and dust accumulate in one region? Gravity, sure, electrostatic attraction maybe, a self contained electromagnetic field? The latter works for CME’s but they are pretty hot when the sun produces them. Read a bit about hypernova cores generating enough heat/pressure to create a kind of quantum soup with pair particle (matter/antimatter) generation just before there is a really big gang. Perhaps with the same matter over anti bias that is theorized for the original big bang.

Just maybe, a hell of a lot more comes out of a hypernova than went in.

By: Link Archive 2010 | K-Squared Ramblings

Link Archive 2010 | K-Squared Ramblings — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:19:18 +0000

[...] cool video of a rocket’s shock wave destroying a sundog (rainbow-like halo effect)Incredible Hubble photo.Space shuttle photographed from the ground.From @BadAstronomer: “Awesome, awesome picture of [...]

By: The Top 14 Astronomy Pictures of 2010

The Top 14 Astronomy Pictures of 2010 — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 11:14:55 +0000

[...] to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 20th year in orbit than to use it to take a huge mosaic of Carina? This astonishing portrait shows the towering pillars of gas and dust being eaten away by cosmic [...]