hubble space telescope

I know just about nothing about astronomy, but I have always been a fan of the Hubble pictures (although I have to admit that I just recently figured out that Hubble is a satellite and was not actually a probe on its way to these places :blush:; you learn something everyday ) This was...

Can this lense described in the link below be used to buuild a new type of hubble telescope? http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/9/4/12

This is an interesting article and all that, but this bit bothers me: How could a star last longer than the universe - I thought one of the suppositions of the "death" of the universe would be no stars shining (to put it incredibly simply)?

http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/1999/aug/m08-009.shtml Enjoy.

"Old" picture of the Sombrero Galaxy: New picture of the Sombrero Galaxy: Is that beautiful or what?

Here are some really neat Hubble pictures. Warning 1: It is a leader for a sales item but it is worth it. Warning 2: It is from the Aussies. :)

The White House has decided to cut the funding for a mission to service Hubble in 2006. MSNBC Well, that's it for Hubble. A few more years of shots, and then it's into the Pacific.

The good news

No one has started a thread about the new Hubble pictures, so here we go. To think that you can look at a tiny blank spot of sky and find that it contains 10,000 galaxies and that you're looking back in time up to 13 billion years is mind boggling. I can barely wrap my mind around it. When I...

NASA has just released the UDF survey pictures from Hubble. Here is the slashdot article, with links to tons of information. From cursory reading, it seems that scientists are already investigating the strange new forms that these extremely early galaxies take on, and they seem to have already...

The rest of the article is HERE. I expect there will be many more science projects sacrificed to the manned Mars program.