Comments on: W00T! Hubble is Back to Work!

By: btw

btw — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:55:45 +0000

Forget Hubble. Build the Hubble II.

By: mike

mike — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:29:04 +0000

Amazing what we can do. I just clicked on the photograph with the Mozilla Firefox browser, clicked on View and Zoom in, which I didn't know was there, FANTASTIC

By: Jon Hanford

Jon Hanford — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:13:00 +0000

A casual glance of the image shows the open-on (O shaped) galaxy to be in a starburst state while the other, edge-on ring galaxy is curiously quiet and not rapidly forming new stars and star clusters. A very curious and telling observation of this weird system. The edge-on ring galaxy also has a faintly bluish ring & nucleus, but all new star formation in it appears to have recently ceased. The E-O ring galaxy's nucleus also exhibits a peculiar absorption lane. With all the starburst activity in the face-on galaxy, it appears that it may have stripped neutral hydrogen from its edge-on companion, fueling its current starburst phase. Quite a remarkable image !

By: Jon Hanford

Jon Hanford — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:55:17 +0000

Check out the original 5m (200 inch) Arp photo @ http://tinyurl.com/2dg5y3 and look for Arp 147, then click on the galaxy's image for a large GIF image. How far we've come since 1966!

By: Astrofiend

Astrofiend — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:50:03 +0000

Wow – an incredible interacting system…

Great to see it up and running, but now we have to see how this service mission ends up panning out…

By: Don Alexander

Don Alexander — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:55:35 +0000

YES!!!!

And wow, that's a weird Galactic system.

By: Sakib

Sakib — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:24:47 +0000

Woohoo Hubble's back! And what a seriously bizarre galaxy! Is the servicing mission still taking place?

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:07:53 +0000

WOOT indeed.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:26:40 +0000

But the bad news isn't far behind: the spare part on the ground is acting up and may threaten the servicing mission and thus Hubble's final years. Today at 21:00 UTC a NASA telecon will reveal more ...

By: Huygens

Huygens — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:12:24 +0000

Imagine if those two galaxies formed the number 42.

Has anyone looked for galaxies that form shapes which could not be made naturally over time?

Yes, we are talking about searching for Kardashev Type 3 civilizations here.

By: Mick

Mick — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:05:56 +0000

Woot glade to see the old man back in action !!!

By: LLDIAZ

LLDIAZ — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:45:18 +0000

CONGRATS!!!
Hubble is a masterpiece which creates masterpieces..