Hubble Finds Unidentified Object in Space, Scientists Puzzled

Spektor said:
No matter how you try to disguise it, your bi-weekly "please believe in UFOs" threads won't work :(
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Actually i'm not trying to make anyone believe anything, i'm just sharing news that some people find interesting.

Besides, who saids it was aliens?

To me it might be a star that was born and died.....

Grow up.
 
Apparantly the repair of hubble is meant to be so dangerous that its almost classed as a impossible mission.

I hope to god they never give in and keep it alive. That one bit of equipment has changed the imaginations of generations of people.
 
Tefal said:
Why don't you just email them and ask for the full picture?:confused:

Or is it just easier to believe a conspiracy?
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Where did i say there was a conspiracy?

I just find it odd and even suspicious, would the government keeping military secrets be deemed a conspiracy or national security? I think you've got conspiracy on the brain.

Also i find the mars lander images odd, the colours aren't right by design or accident, who knows but they sure like using infrared for red and 'tweaking' don't they, all i want is a standard ccd to show us true colours, the same goes for many satellite images of mars, odd and even suspicious i would say.

Delvis said:
;)

Conspiracys tend to be more 'fun'.
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Fun? Have you heard any of the conspiracy's around, most revolve around things that are anything but fun, who wants to think some group is conspiring against them?
 
I think this demonstrates the 'cry wolf' adage. Cry wolf (alien) often enough and you'll get ridiculed when there really is merit to the thread.

For once, I support the OP. Hubble has made amazing discoveries and continues to make them. I look forward to the upgrades and hope they'll be a success. Long live Hubble.

PS - suggestion that the Hubble repair is impossibly dangerous is sensationalist bull****. It is dangerous, yes. Somewhere around 1:100 odds of a disaster. Those may not look like good odds but you can be sure everyone involved is aware of and understands them. That's also partly why there will be a second shuttle on the pad and ready to go should it be needed.
 
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Berserker said:
PS - suggestion that the Hubble repair is impossibly dangerous is sensationalist bull****. It is dangerous, yes. Somewhere around 1:100 odds of a disaster. Those may not look like good odds but you can be sure everyone involved is aware of and understands them. That's also partly why there will be a second shuttle on the pad and ready to go should it be needed.
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You make it sound like a walk in the park.

Repairs
• Repair two failed instruments in space, which is the first time such a task is going to be attempted. This will be a test to see if Nasa can do this kind of tasks in future missions to the Moon and Mars. The repairs will require removing 110 (yes, a hundred and ten) little screws. While this seems easy, not only it will take a lot of time in zero mavity, but the screws, like any other floating debris, may become a big problem for the security of the astronauts up there.
• The first instrument to be repaired is the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). It was installed in 2002, and then died after being the most used instrument in Hubble for years.
• Then they have to fix the Space Telescope Imagine Spectrograph (STIS). This is a black hole hunter which also did the first detection and chemical analysis of a planet orbiting another star.

New instruments
• They will install the fanciest, most advanced spectrograph in space: the Cosmic Origin Spectrograph.
• In addition to the COS, they are also going to install the Wield Field Camera 3. This new camera is ten times better than the current instrument, and will let us see into the past of the Universe deeper and farther than ever before.

Spacecraft service
• In addition to the pure science aspect of the mission, Nasa also wants to upgrade and fix the spacecraft itself, starting with the gyroscopes, which will be upgraded.
• They also are going to install a refurbished fine guidance sensor.
• The batteries are going to be replaced for the first time since Hubble went into space.
• A new outer blanket layer, this time a solid shield, will be put on top of the current blanket.
• Thermal insulation will be replaced on several bays of the telescope.
• A new capture instrument will be installed to recover the Hubble at the end of its life.
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"A new capture instrument will be installed to recover the Hubble at the end of its life."

Sounds the best part of that entire upgrade. Will be awesome to visit a museum with hubble in.
 
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Teki187 said:
You make it sound like a walk in the park.
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That's because (a) this isn't the first Hubble servicing mission - IIRC it's the 4th, and at least two of the astronauts involved were involved in the last one as well, and (b) a lot of the 'new' tasks are only new in respect of Hubble. Most of them will have similarities with tasks on ISS.

And you won't be visiting any Hubble museums. Hubble ain't coming back. The plan is simply to send up something to pull Hubble out of orbit and dump any remains into the nearest ocean. Most of it will get destroyed on the way in.
 
Teki187 said:
To celebrate hubbles 100,000th orbit of earth, they took this photo.

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Am I missing something obvious? Surely the scale is not right because they are not on the same plane? :/
 
PinkFloyd said:
Hubble only has a 0.6MP camera :eek:
And to think I have an image taken by hubble that is 29566x14321. Must have taken a while to stitch!

Can't wait till October to see what it can do :D
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Yup it was state of the art at the turn of the last century though,as well as being more mega pixels it obviously has other advanced tech in the new one,such as gaples microlenses n such
 
Le_Petit_Lapin said:
Proof that more megapixels don't equal better photos. Its all in the optics.
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Yup A 2m wide lens! Lol even then it was duff,lol

Ya know im sad here not bringing Hubble back....however why can they not launch the James web telescope on the same orbit,take that up,and then bring Hubble home? Surely it wouldn't b a problem and you would only need one mission to do 2 things?
 
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