Hubble is Back
I was scrounging around on the Web reading science news earlier today and ran across an announcement that Hubble Space Telescope is back up and running and science observations are resuming (presumably starting last night (Saturday)). This is good news for all the astronomers who are lined up waiting to use the telescope. The first post-switchover image should be posted sometime in this coming week. Here’s one of HST’s greatest hits from 2007 to tide you over until the science starts flowing again. Explore!
Thousands of sparkling young stars are nestled within the giant nebula NGC 3603. This stellar jewel box is one of the most massive young star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. It lies about 20,000 light-years away in the Carina spiral arm of our galaxy. Courtesy NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Collaboration.
