The Hubble is back in business! (new pictures)

[pokerfan]

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business. Just a couple of days after the orbiting observatory was brought back online, Hubble aimed its prime working camera, the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), at a particularly intriguing target, a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies called Arp 147. The image demonstrated that the camera is working exactly as it was before going offline, thereby scoring a "perfect 10" both for performance and beauty.

http://hubble.nasa.gov/news/latest.php

[onehandle]

1. I recently saw a film that animated the eventual "interaction" between Andromeda and the Milky Way.

This was on the shipboard planetarium on the Queen Mary 2. It was narrated by Robert Redford.

It showed the two galaxies combining into one super-galaxy.

Needless to say, we'll be long gone by then.

[pokerfan]

2. May our sun live so long

[gtar100]

5. We won't be gone. Just rearranged and transformed by natural processes.

Fascinating to consider the inevitability of a few billion years from now.

[n2doc]

3. Yeah! n/t

[Wilms]

4. .