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

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: 2) by isostatic on Friday January 11 2019, @12:43PM (1 child)

    by isostatic (365) on Friday January 11 2019, @12:43PM (#784999) Journal

    You're saying an expensive wall can be easilly overcome by getting over it, with something like a ladder?

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday January 11 2019, @04:50PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Friday January 11 2019, @04:50PM (#785108) Journal

    That's why we're moving away from a medieval wall to a "barrier", such as a spaceship's energy shields.

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