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Hubble Telescope Camera Breaks – and U.S. Shutdown Might Delay Repair

posted by takyon on Friday January 11 2019, @12:15AM   
from the trubble dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Hubble has a problem. NASA says that one of the cameras on the almost 30-year-old space telescope – the Wide Field Camera 3 – is no longer operational because of a hardware problem.

"WFC3 is the major imaging instrument on HST [Hubble Space Telescope]. It is, frankly, the best view of the heavens that humanity has," Simon Porter, an astrophysicist at the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado, wrote on Twitter. "But apparently some bloody fence is more important."

Although the Hubble Space Telescope has been observing the sky since 1990, the WFC3 was added just 10 years ago during a service mission. Over the last decade it has captured spectacular images, including a high-resolution version of the iconic 'Pillars of Creation' – a gas cloud inside the Eagle Nebula that was first imaged by Hubble back in 1995.

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• Re:Democrat astrophysicist shows his colors Re:Democrat astrophysicist shows his colors (Score: 5, Informative) by NotSanguine on Friday January 11 2019, @03:23AM (1 child)

  by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Friday January 11 2019, @03:23AM (#784857) Homepage Journal

  For two years, Congress blocked the funding. They put politics ahead of the good of our country, and of the migrants.

  Not so much. Trump/Senate Republicans could have had US$25Billion for a wall/border security a year ago, but *they* rejected the deal. [wtsp.com]

  Your narrative is smooth, but it lacks a crucial piece -- reality.

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  No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr

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• Re:Democrat astrophysicist shows his colors (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday January 11 2019, @06:42AM

  by fustakrakich (6150) on Friday January 11 2019, @06:42AM (#784925) Journal

  *they* *senate* *republicans* *congress* blocked the funding, right? You only need a few. It only took a few democrats to block universal health care for the two years they held the power. This is a bipartisan method of business, while the wars get funded without debate. It's the game they play. This is the congress that wins elections over and over, so why blame them? Nobody lifts a finger to replace them with something more palatable.

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  La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..

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