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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   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @06:48AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @06:48AM (#784928)

    I hate you, AC! I hate what you are! I hate what you think! I hate what you wear! I hate how you smell! But most of all, I hate how you think, since I have no idea what you are or what you wear, or what your sexual orientation or tax-bracket is, or how you smell. But mostly I just hate you because you are a vanishingly small minority in America, whose children will soon be fucked by brown, yellow, red, or black people THEY ARE MARRIED TO! You fucking racist! I hate racists. I hate you. Ask me again, so I can hate you some more. And my God will, too.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @02:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @02:37PM (#785037)

    And my God will, too.

    My "internet boyfriend" once told me he was somewhat interested in my ancient aliens approach to eclectic paganism. You must not be a Yahweh worshiper, because Yahweh, even in his own propaganda (works collected in the "Bible"), freely admits to multiple counts of genocide, openly promotes infant genital mutilation and violence against LGBTQ people, and has directed many other crimes against intelligent life (including the orbital bombardment of Sodom and Gomorrah and also mass infanticide in Egypt using a genetically selective biological weapon).

    Anyway, what god do you worship?