Where can I access Hubble Telescope pictures?”
NASA Show First Hubble Telescope Pictures Since May Repair By Art Chimes Washington, DC 10 September 2009 Hubble’s wide field camera captured NGC 6302, a butterfly-shaped nebula, 3,800 light-years from Earth Hubble’s wide field camera captured NGC 6302, a butterfly-shaped nebula, 3,800 light-years from Earth The U.S. space agency NASA on Wednesday unveiled dramatic new photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope four months after astronauts upgraded the almost 20-year-old earth-orbiting astronomy platform. In May, Space Shuttle astronauts replaced two of Hubble’s science instruments and performed other repairs, and this week scientists celebrated the results with the astronauts who made the trip, including Megan McArthur. “I don’t know how many different ways you can say ‘wow’ or ‘amazing’ or ‘cool,'” she told reporters. “I think the other thing that we all feel was relief and satisfaction that all the instruments are working even better than the folks who designed them expected them to
Stunning photographs from far reaches of space were made available for viewing by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, yesterday. The first new pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope since its repair in May are amazing. From a nebula to galaxies far, far away, they are truly worth a visit to the official NASA website: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/ero_images.html According to NASA, now that the Hubble is better than ever, thanks to the work performed on it in space by NASA astronauts, its exploration will go farther afield than ever before.
You can go to http://hubblesite.org/ to see Hubble Telescope pictures. Since the telescope was recently upgraded and repaired, the pictures have been drastically improved.
