Hubble: The Mirror on the Universe
Monday, December 28th, 2009 at
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From Publishers Weekly
To the naked eye, the heavens may look monochrome and still-blue during the day, black at night, dotted with little sparkles of starlight. But the universe as shown to us by the Hubble Space Telescope-as shown extravagantly in the photos in this volume-is full of color, as well as movement and drama. Kerrod, an astronomer and author, explains the heavenly phenomena captured by the HST: the smoky Ring Nebula in the constellation Lyra; the birth of stars; Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 headed for a fiery impact with Jupiter. She also provides a history of the use of telescopes in astronomy and of the HST in particular, from its launch in 1990 and the emergency repair of a flawed mirror, to the later servicings of what Kerrod calls "one of the most amazing scientific instruments ever made."
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From Booklist
Astronomer Kerrod is not exaggerating when he writes that the Hubble Space Telescope is "one of the most amazing scientific instruments ever made," and no science collection is complete without at least one book devoted to the unprecedented and universe-defining images Hubble has amassed. Kerrod provides an excellent overview of Hubble's accomplishments (along with a history of the evolution of the telescope), thoughtfully organizing the spellbinding images from space, and clearly and avidly explaining exactly which phenomena they depict. One of the most dramatic series showcases the death of a star, a red giant, in which molten matter is shot out into space from a superhot core to form expanding, baroquely chimerical shells. Hubble has "revolutionized" the study of these dynamic "stellar ghosts," just as it has recorded another fascinating, never before seen process, the transformation of dusty protoplanetary disks into planets. As Kerrod classifies galaxies by shape and discusses how difficult it is to spot extrasolar planets, he can't help but express his belief that the universe contains "other planetary systems like our own." Donna Seaman
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If you wonder, I started reading ‘The Big Questions’ by Steven E. Landsburg lately:
The pictures are amazing, and the choice of stating with us and moving out in distance to the edge of the the known universe is inspired. Everyone I have shown it to has found it hard to put down. It doesn’t contain a lot of information, but this makes it an ideal introduction to the wonders out there.
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Fortunately I’ am a Trekkie so I understand what you mean. Indeed in Star Trek episodes or other science fiction series one can see life forms such as living crystals, living rocks, even a living planet. As far as we are not absolutely sure for many things, also life, one can not totally reject this opinion. I remember from biology when we started at the first chapter the book said that no actual definition of what life is, exists, but we can define life from some characteristics, such as
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If we bring it down, fix it and then put it back up you risk more damage by moving it around. Rocket launches aren't exactly smooth. Also, remember that Hubble is in zero G. That means that those huge lenses carry little weight, so the fixing may be easier in zero G. The Hubble might also not be able to support its own weight here on Earth anymore. I'm interested in the metallurgical changes to Hubbles' outer hull for these years in orbit. The constant cold temperature, zero gravity and solar radiation could have affected Hubbles' structural integrity.
You also may have some wiring and electronic components that could impacted by being brought back down too.
When in doubt surrender control n let God/ess/universe…whtever powers tht b…take control n guide u to ur destiny.
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So, how old is the earth clangurt???
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There are several dimensions to "most powerful".
1. Light gathering – which is size of aperture
2. Spectrum – which part of the spectrum are we talking about
3. integration – can it track and integrate the image
4. correction – can it correct for non-ideal imaging
5. response to changes – does it detect changes to the image
6. response to events – can it find and focus on particular events
just of the top of my head.
Kepler is more powerful in a very specific task: to observe changes in the brightness of stars which might indicate planets orbiting the star. So I think it is tuned for that special task.
Late night tweet: [PICS] The Hubble Space Telescope, has taken almost 200,000 pictures of the Universe
so is inertia then a resistance to the curve?
“The key to understanding dark matter is in our grasp – we’ve got something here on Earth that works just the same way. Dark matter is hypothetical, invisible stuff that cosmologists invoke to explain why the universe appears to contain much less matter than their calculations say it should, and some think that it is made up of hypothetical particles called axions. Even though we haven’t yet found a genuine axion, however, materials called topological insulators can be used to mimic them, say Shoucheng Zhang and colleagues at Stanford University, California. Magnetic fluctuations in the materials produce a field just like an axion field, his team found. “They are an exact mathematical analogy,” says Zhang. That means we could probe the effects of dark matter in the lab. For example, the polarisation of the cosmic background radiation left over from the big bang should depend on how it interacts with dark matter. Simply measuring light shone through a topological insulator could show what cosmic effects to expect. “It could tell us how to build better detectors,” says Zhang. He presented the work this week at a meeting of the American Physical Society in Portland, Oregon.”
or God made it all
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