NASA has released its first images from the newly-serviced Hubble Space Telescope, and jolly impressive they are too. The new pictures include colourful multi-wavelength pictures of distant galaxies, a densely packed star cluster, and a butterfly-shaped nebula. Hubble's new instruments are more sensitive to light, and cover the spectrum from ultraviolet right through to near infra-red. "The telescope was given an extreme makeover and is now significantly more powerful than ever, and equipped to last well into the next decade," said Ed Weiler, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters.A densely packed star cluster inside Omega Centauri was one of the first images taken by the Hubble's new Wide Field Camera.
10 September 2009
More amazing than you can imagine
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