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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @05:36AM (1 child)
There is a glut of Americans with PhDs. If all the foreign born scientists were deported tomorrow, and an increase in researcher pay was made, American born PhD holders could fill all the vacancies. It would take several years for the researchers to get up to speed on their new specialty field.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @06:44AM
This is not true. In fact, it is wrong. In error. Incorrect. False. You, my pathetic non-PhD AC, are a fucking asshole of a racist, and I hope you get punched in the face while dying in a fire. We can all dream, right?