NASA Images
The image on left was taken in November 1993. The image on right taken in December 1993.
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NASA Images
The image on left was taken in November 1993. The image on right taken in December 1993.
https://i.redd.it/mxd5owmuqo5g1.jpeg
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Hubble needed cataract surgery.
It’s sad that 14 years after the Shuttle was retired we still don’t have the capability to do a manned servicing mission to extend Hubble’s life again.
I remember holding my breath and opening the ~~champagne~~ red wine when JWST was going up there to unroll, but Hubble is the one which stays in my heart. And yes, new science is important, but I’ve always enjoyed the colouring they did on Hubble pictures much more 😀 No idea whether NASA considered this before the mission, but infrared telescopes make worse wallpapers.
Is the left image deconvolved?
OP posted an image and no link, so it’s hard to understand what this is.
The main mirror was off by one fiftieth the thickness of a human hair.
I work in the same building as Duncan Moore once did. He came up with the corrective optics design that fixed Hubble. A small world indeed
Fun fact: For the cost of the repair mission, NASA could’ve built and launched a replacement Hubble.
Fun Fact 2: The department of defense had a Hubble twin that they never launched and gave to NASA. They did nothing with it.
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|[EVA](/r/Space/comments/1pg5zgn/stub/nsp7b1o “Last usage”)|Extra-Vehicular Activity|
|[JWST](/r/Space/comments/1pg5zgn/stub/nsowwis “Last usage”)|James Webb infra-red Space Telescope|
|[RTG](/r/Space/comments/1pg5zgn/stub/nsp62uz “Last usage”)|Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator|
|STS|Space Transportation System (*Shuttle*)|
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Okay this might be a really dumb question, but I always wondered why some of wall panels galaxy photos on Space Mountain (Disneyland) in the queue area seemed kind of faded and fuzzy, were they just based on old Hubble photographs?
I think they’ve since been replaced so I couldn’t show you one for comparison.
Did they pull off the protective plastic (so satisfying!)?
The cosmos really are extraordinarily beautiful. If it were more financially viable, and the world wasn’t such a disaster, I would’ve loved to dedicate my life to astrophysics.
100 Million dollars and someone forgot to put the lens in.