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Há alguns comentários aqui http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=418049&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true#StartComments Aparentemente embasbacados :) ___ Hubble telescope's top ten greatest space photographs By MICHAEL HANLON 23rd November 2006 Gallery: The most amazing space photographs in the universe http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/galleries/index.html?in_gallery_id=9139&in_page_id=1055','780','550',%20'yes' For a while it looked as if the whole mission would end in embarrassing failure. After it was launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope, a $1.5 billion orbiting observatory, was found to have a glitch in its giant lens - rendering Earth's first orbital observatory short-sighted. But after an audacious Shuttle repair mission, when Hubble was fixed with what is effectively a pair of eyeglasses to correct its sight, the telescope has returned some of the most stunning images ever captured by science. And now astronomers have voted for the best pictures taken by Hubble in its 16 years in orbit. Hubble's Top Ten are shown here, and they illustrate that our universe is not only deeply strange, but also almost impossibly beautiful. Hubble, which is about the size of a bus, has been sending pictures and data back to scientists since it began operating 370 miles up. It transmits about 120 gigabytes of information every week. That's equal to about 3,600 feet of books on a shelf. By putting a telescope into space, astronomers can get views of distant objects without having to look through Earth's thick and soupy atmosphere. From hundreds of miles above the clouds and weather, Hubble can provide pictures of unparallelled clarity and sharpness. Over its life, Hubble has been pointed at objects as diverse as the Moon and the most distant galaxies, to help scientists better understand the wonders of the known universe. Hubble is an old machine and, until recently, glitches in its various mechanisms seemed to have doomed the telescope. But now NASA has announced a $900million repair mission in the next couple of years to keep it flying. When the repairs have been carried out, it is hoped Hubble will continue to give many more years of service and, perhaps, even return images superior to those seen here. Henry Lambright, science and technology professor at Syracuse University, New York, says: 'The beautiful pictures that we see Hubble produce are gripping to everyone who looks at them. They transmit the magic of space in a way that words cannot.' Retirado de http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=418049&in_page_id=1770 -- Beijins Fa ---------------------------------------------------------------- "A diferença entre o Império Romano e o Império Americano é que, em Roma, o máximo a que um cavalo chegou foi a senador". ---------------------------------------------------------------- akleber escreveu: > recebida na minha lista de cosmologia > sem comentarios, nem filosofia... > para nós, formiguinhas cósmicas, ficarmos em silencio solene..... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Amazing pictures, difficult to really envisage. > > *BTW, one light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles in length. That's > almost 6 trillion miles traveled at the speed of light in one year. > > Hubble telescope's top ten greatest space photographs > > The Sombrero Galaxy - 28 million light years from Earth - was voted > best picture taken by the Hubble telescope. The dimensions of the > galaxy, officially called M104, are as spectacular as its appearance. > It has 800 billion suns and is 50,000 light years across. > ...
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