Not too shabby, huh ?

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Explanation: On Wednesday, May 13, two, tiny, fast moving spots crossed an otherwise featureless solar disk. Not sunspots though, the dark blemishes were silhouettes of the shuttle orbiter Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope side by side. To record this sharp picture of the orbiting pair against the face of the Sun, astronomer Thierry Legault carefully set up his camera and telescope near the center of a 5 kilometer wide path of visibility about 100 kilometers south of Kennedy Space Center in Florida. He opened the shutter for 1/8,000 second at 12:17 EDT, catching Atlantis and Hubble at a range of 600 kilometers while they were moving at 7 kilometers/second. The total duration of the transit (Sun crossing) was 0.8 seconds. Enlarged in the inset view, Atlantis (top) is approaching Hubble prior to capturing the space telescope. Thursday, astronauts began a series of spacewalks to perform the maintenance as part of the final mission to Hubble.

source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090516.html

TheFunPolice wrote on Dec 25^th, 2017 at 9:02pm:



Yes - I changed the spelling for this post.

May I recommenced the NASA astronomy picture of the day list?

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

Jasin wrote on Dec 25^th, 2017 at 8:40pm:



I like that one

Bobby. wrote on Dec 25^th, 2017 at 11:20pm:

Thats where I got my sun and hubble and atlantis picture from... it's got a great one today of a fireball in the arctic from one of the meteor showers. I didn't post it because it had nothing to do with hubble.

Well the USA 'space race' was mostly motivated and stimulated by the 'cold war' with USSR.
These days, NASA finds it very hard to beg for the funding for anything.
The Space Race basically ended in Celebrity President Ronny Reagan and his 'Star Wars' effort of putting big guns in space and pointing them back at Earth.

those pictures are bullshit...

the Hubble cannot take pictures like that... ffs 

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It's my contention that it was NASA who invented the Lithium Ion battery, and for this I sincerely would like to thank them. It revolutionised battery technology to the effect that I now have a chainsaw that runs off a Lithium Ion battery pack.

What everyone is waiting for, of course, is the invention/discovery of anti-matter and anti-gravitational forces that can be harnessed in a controlable container.

The CERN guys are working on it.

President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Dec 26^th, 2017 at 5:17pm:



You have to remember people. that mechanic is a FLAT-EARTHER and therefore all space photos must be fakes.  Even on conspiracy websites, flat-earthers are viewed as the inbred-cousins.

President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Dec 26^th, 2017 at 5:11pm:


dear Mechanic,
The Hubble often takes pictures using filters for Hydrogen Alpha, Oxygen 3 & Sulfur 2.
These are mapped to Red Green & Blue.( called RGB )

However the Hubble can take pictures with Red, Green & Blue filters
to give the true colours of the target.

Your home cameras do the same thing with RGB.
The pictures are taken from the camera chip as monochrome
in what's called a 2x2 Bayer matrix.
In a matrix of 2x2 there are 2 green filtered pixels for each Red & Blue pixel.
A  monochrome sensor has 4 times the resolution of a Bayer matrix.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter

longweekend58 wrote on Dec 29^th, 2017 at 8:56am:


Then there are also the other 'flat earthers' - they stare at their phones, their Iphones, their Ipads, their TV's, their Computer screens, their Laptop screens, at Movie Cinema screens, the advertisement billboards and anything else that is ...a flat screen.
All totally dependent on Technology like a primitive in a rainforest.

Johnnie wrote on Dec 29^th, 2017 at 10:52pm:


I think Hubble only looks at what it gets 'paid' to look at.
Heaps of people 'pay' to have Hubble look at their chosen point of reference for whatever reason.

True. But maybe they had other Telescopes (earth based) already keeping an eye on it?
Hubble is primarily used for extremely extremely distant stuff that earth-based Telescopes can't even come close to seeing, because of the atmosphere's distortions.

Jasin wrote on Dec 29^th, 2017 at 11:32pm:

I want it to take the best shot in the universe of the great emu in the sky but im not paying for it!

Hang on a second,.. I smell a rat!

If it was only the size of a bus how come the commentary here says that it was ten times the size of what wiped out the dinosaurs?

....telll me!

....tell me !!

TheFunPolice wrote on Dec 30^th, 2017 at 12:30pm:


It's a mixed bag of lollies. Sometimes it can be twice as big but travelling twice as slow and thus the 'impact damage' is considerably different.
Imagine a much smaller meteor, than the one that impacted during the Dinosaurs - but travelling at x30 times faster ...it would rupture the Earth's crust considerably and hot magma would spew forth over the planet's surface for millions of years!

After Ronald Regan's 'Star Wars' idea of putting 'guns' in space and pointing them back at earth to keep the peace...
...I kinda have less fear of meteors these days.