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originally posted by: AlienView
a reply to: ShadowLink
It is listed as 'live' and has been running for months 24/7
How do you know, and are you sure, that it is not live ?
Also, does anyone know what those strange looking, what looks like rock formations or mountains that appear from time to time are ?
originally posted by: BrianFlanders
Yeah. Many of those are long exposures and I think most of the photos from Hubble the public sees are false color. Don't ask me why but NASA pretty much doctors everything they show to the public. By false color I don't mean that the objects are necessarily the wrong color. I mean that Hubble apparently was not designed to take pretty pictures. It was meant to take scientific images. So they have to take those and make them look the way your eye would see them.
SO....if you see a Hubble photo that looks amazing, it's definitely not live.
originally posted by: Spacespider
originally posted by: AlienView
a reply to: ShadowLink
It is listed as 'live' and has been running for months 24/7
How do you know, and are you sure, that it is not live ?
Also, does anyone know what those strange looking, what looks like rock formations or mountains that appear from time to time are ?
the famous Ultra Deep Field photo(s) required something like a 10-day exposure on a very tiny piece of the sky
So no, not live.. just a youtube picture slideshow
Dr Rachel Osten, deputy mission head for the Hubble Space Telescope, tweeted: "Very stressful weekend. Right now HST is in safe mode while we figure out what to do. Another gyro failed. First step is try to bring back the last gyro, which had been off, and is being problematic."
The reign of NASA's champion exoplanet-hunting telescope Kepler may be coming to an end this month, according to an update from the agency posted yesterday (Sept. 28). That's because two systems are troubling the aging telescope: New data shows that the instrument is struggling to point precisely across the heavens, even as it continues to run out of fuel, according to the agency statement.
The team behind Kepler has turned off the instrument temporarily, then will wake it up again on Oct. 10, when it is due to send its next batch of data back to Earth. At this point, according to NASA, there's no way to tell whether that process will be successful. If it is, they'll set the telescope back to gathering data, trying to eke out as much as possible from the machine.
originally posted by: blackcrowe
a reply to: TEOTWAWKIAIFF
Add this to your list.
The reign of NASA's champion exoplanet-hunting telescope Kepler may be coming to an end this month, according to an update from the agency posted yesterday (Sept. 28). That's because two systems are troubling the aging telescope: New data shows that the instrument is struggling to point precisely across the heavens, even as it continues to run out of fuel, according to the agency statement.
The team behind Kepler has turned off the instrument temporarily, then will wake it up again on Oct. 10, when it is due to send its next batch of data back to Earth. At this point, according to NASA, there's no way to tell whether that process will be successful. If it is, they'll set the telescope back to gathering data, trying to eke out as much as possible from the machine.