Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Inbox Astronomy: Behind the Scenes of Recovering NASA's Hubble

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Behind the Scenes of Recovering NASA's Hubble



Release date: Nov 27, 2018 11:30 AM (EST)

Behind the Scenes of Recovering NASA's Hubble

In the early morning of October 27, 2018, the Hubble Space Telescope targeted a field of galaxies not far from the Great Square in the constellation Pegasus. Contained in the field were star-forming galaxies up to 11 billion light-years away. With the target in its sights, Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 recorded an image. It was the first picture captured by the telescope since it closed its eyes on the universe three weeks earlier, and it was the result of an entire team of engineers and experts working tirelessly to get the telescope exploring the cosmos once again.


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