New images from the Hubble Space Telescope have been released today, and, oh fuck yeah, they’re super awesome. Taken from a recent service mission to the orbiting telescope, the new photos show cool shit like colliding galaxies, dying stars and even a floating Alf in space (check below, it’s true man!). This last mission, which took place in May, marks the fifth and final mission to the Hubble Telescope and should provide the ’scope with just enough life to work until 2014, at which point a new telescope-space-station-hybrid will take it’s place. That is, the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST for short.
Sure, it’s not as catchy as the Hubble (hard to beat, really), but it’s expected to be bigger, better and simply all-around more badass. Which, hey, cool with me. Check out the photos below, they’re worth your time. And then check out more at the NASA website.
All photos courtesy of NASA (natch)
Comments
daniel
September 9th, 2009 - 4:29:31 PM
the second picture from the bottom, looks just like the deep depths of the ocean ... plus the stars in the last one? look a little shopped, no? SUSPECT
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azie
September 10th, 2009 - 2:34:31 AM
Really amazing...
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Mars
September 11th, 2009 - 1:02:44 AM
wow amazing, this images are useful for patterns
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anon
October 11th, 2009 - 2:09:54 PM
Daniel, Are you serious? Why would NASA shop their pictures?
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HedgeLender
October 21st, 2009 - 11:34:01 AM
amazing, It was worth the investment to fix it.
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Other Dan
November 9th, 2009 - 9:14:17 AM
I was under the impression that they were all Photoshopped as a matter of course - not with the intention to mislead but to make sense of them by adding colour and filtering out noise. Image editing software is sometimes used not to make you see stuff that isn't there, but to help you see what is. But I may have been misinformed.
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Tsirku
December 29th, 2009 - 8:33:23 AM
Superb images but is it necessary to use profanities in the otherwise informative accompanying text.
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