All right folks, step right up! Here is "our bargain" of the century - more miles per dollar (mpd) than any other government program ever (that has been made public)- The Hubble Space Telescope/2014 Deep Field!!!
The Hubble Team Unveils the Most Colorful View of Our Universe Captured by Space Telescope.
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have assembled a comprehensive picture of the evolving universe – among the most colorful deep space images ever captured by the 24-year-old telescope.
Researchers say the image, in new study called the Ultraviolet Coverage of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, provides the missing link in star formation. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2014 image is a composite of separate exposures taken in 2003 to 2012 with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3.
Astronomers previously studied the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) in visible and near-infrared light in a series of images captured from 2003 to 2009. The HUDF shows a small section of space in the southern-hemisphere constellation Fornax. Now, using ultraviolet light, astronomers have combined the full range of colors available to Hubble, stretching all the way from ultraviolet to near-infrared light. The resulting image -- made from 841 orbits of telescope viewing time -- contains approximately 10,000 galaxies, extending back in time to within a few hundred million years of the big bang.
More: http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/june/hubble-team-unveils-most-colorful-view-of-universe-captured-by-space-telescope/#.U45SRBY5OjQ
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So it seems that we are looking in the past :) and there is a lot more here in the present to see. Why don't they just turn Hubble to Mars and take all the pictures they can take? Or the Moon or any planet in our solar system ? Instead of guessing look through the thing.........
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:D :D :D :D
Just saying :D
Hubble has been worth every penny, imo. And then some.