Images - Hubble

[PB666]

http://www.iflscience.com/space/gorgeous-new-hubble-image-cosmic-butterfly-wingscreated this thread, thought there should be a thread for shuutle images but could not find one. This image does not really deserve its own thread. If you have space telescope images add them here

1. Butterfly planetary nebula.

http://www.iflscience.com/sites/www.iflscience.com/files/styles/ifls_large/public/blog/%5Bnid%5D/heic1518a.jpg?itok=EFxdpVx-

[RainDreamer]

Makes me wonder what will be the last image hubble will get before it is decommissioned. Hopefully it will make history.

[PB666]

Makes me wonder what will be the last image hubble will get before it is decommissioned. Hopefully it will make history.

I hope NASA comes to their senses (by NASA I mean the US congress) and finds a way to fund a repair/upgrade missions. Even better at the end of its life replace it with a telescope with a properly curved primary mirror.

[Motokid600]

Beutful picture. Good to know the Hubble is still hard at work. But I do agree that when the time comes NASA should replace it with another visible light telescope. If only for the sake of public interest. But money is money unfotunally so only we get only one instead of both so in logical terms the JWST is the better choice.

... Unless someone else wants a telescope in space. I hear SpaceX can cut a good deal now a days.

[PB666]

Beutful picture. Good to know the Hubble is still hard at work. But I do agree that when the time comes NASA should replace it with another visible light telescope. If only for the sake of public interest. But money is money unfotunally so only we get only one instead of both so in logical terms the JWST is the better choice.

... Unless someone else wants a telescope in space. I hear SpaceX can cut a good deal now a days.

If hubble was mountain based scope we would be talking about a 100 or 200 year lifespan. There is something to be said for sticking with what works. Webb is not going to be a general use telescope like Hubble, and correct me If I am worng but it has a fluid cooling system which will require refueling. Webb is going to be more expensive to operate. 5 years after Hubble goes dark I predict that thier will be lots of regrets in the astronomy community. I don't think there is any other telescope in the history of astronomy going back 500 years that has produced so much public fascination as the Hubble, and I think the public takes it for granted that it will always produce or that ther will be a cheaper better replacement. One day they will wake up and find out that niether were true.

[AngelLestat]

Amazing picture, it gives a lot of clues on how the physics of that explosion work out.

About cooling the James Webb, I dint read about that, but if you have energy, you always can pump heat from one place to another. So not sure why it would need extra helium for cooling, I guess the helium is used as "heat carrier", nothing more.