Superb vistas from reborn Hubble

Astronomers are celebrating the release of remarkable new images from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).

They prove the mission carried out by astronauts in May to service the observatory was an outstanding success.

The latest pictures include trademark Hubble visions - from colliding galaxies to dying stars.

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It's hard to believe that, possibly, someone very small, is worried about a job interview.

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That's just poetic.....

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Peace

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haha - true.....When my mates start talking about football and cricket stats I always change the conversation by telling about about the hubble deep space image.....

For me some of the pictures that hubble take, touch me very deeply inside. Like how the best art touches some humans, and makes them all goey inside.

Some of the pictures we have seen from hubble have been so beautiful. Just think, us scum are part of this all. Just think all of the looney humans vendettas mean nothing in the sands of time. While we live in something so beautiful, people are just scum, here to ruin anything they can.

I love the images from the Hubble telescope! I saw the butterfly nebula one earlier today and was just awestruck at how beautiful it is. I think the galaxy really is a beautiful place.

Can't be a NASA photo it has colour in it! Must be fake!

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hahaha man i was just about to post that picture and people say ohhh no way can life be out there

We alone? ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? hahaha

star "ironic" LOL

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hahaha man i was just about to post that picture and people say ohhh no way can life be out there

We alone? ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? hahaha

star "ironic" LOL

Dude, I remember, the picture, pointed into a blank and empty spot in the universe (btw the guy who did it outspent his time, gratefully now though!) and when it was developed, so much was seen, that we couldn't fathom it being there, in a vastness of nothing.

Just makes me wonder, how the others are living, we assume in a greater essence, but are some just slaves in a whole planet, are we lucky to have the little slavery we have.

Most of, in such space, how could we not be alone, we aren't even SPOTTABLE! in the universe!.

LMAO, that's so incredibly sad too.

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totally agree mate but LIFE will always find a way, after all we make the universe work!!

I take heart knowing without me you the cat the dog the aliens.. NONE of this we take for granted would WORK

One poster said it best.. The universe does not revolve around you but have faith and take heart that the universe revolves BECAUSE of you

thought it was fitting

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Ha that would be me! I have one today!

Nice pic..Reminds of Christmas lights : )

maybe the hubble is a scam and they're all computer generated images....I just cant comprehend how unimaginable these images are....

I have a silly question. Please bear with the naive Nixie a moment.

I was looking at the incredible butterfly picture from Hubble.

Where does the light come from? Do they have to enhance the picture? Does it come from the nebula? Surrounding stars or suns? What makes it glow?

Thanks! and please don't hurt me.

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I think thats a good question which made me do a little search. From a quick google I found this but your question is quite specific but hope this may help...

The Hubble Space Telescope has two kinds of instruments: (1) imagers, which take pictures; and (2) spectrographs, which analyze light. Imagers are electronic detectors called charge -- coupled devices (CCD's). The CCD's convert light into electronic signals, which an on -- board computer records and sends to the ground. A spectrograph, like a prism, spreads light into its component colors, much as water droplets spread sunlight into a rainbow. The resulting band of light is called a spectrum (plural spectra). Using spectrographic data from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers can determine the composition of stars and galaxies--measuring, for example, the amounts of hydrogen, carbon, and other chemical elements in them

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