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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 deimtee on Friday January 11 2019, @07:31PM (1 child)

    by deimtee (3272) on Friday January 11 2019, @07:31PM (#785182) Journal

    Actually, that would be interesting if 38 was right at some point. Does that mean that Trump has ended seven (plus however many he added) declared emergencies?

    (Of course, much less interesting if your memory was just wrong by some random factor.)

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  • (Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Friday January 11 2019, @10:40PM

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 11 2019, @10:40PM (#785267) Journal

    The chart here gives it graphically as well as detail on all 31.

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/07/politics/trump-wall-active-national-emergency/index.html [cnn.com]

    Clinton created the most
    Obama was next
    GW Bush was third.

    Trump has done 3 in two years and allowed 2-4 to lapse (hard to tell). I expect his numbers will pick up a bit now that he has an opposition house.

    He's isn't really much of an outlier in terms of emergency declarations/year that I can tell, comparable to GW and Obama, but lagging well behind Clinton.

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