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Rebooted Hubble Telescope Wastes No Time, Captures Cool New Pics of Misfit Galaxies - Gizmodo Australia

Rebooted Hubble Telescope Wastes No Time, Captures Cool New Pics of Misfit Galaxies - Gizmodo Australia

Rebooted Hubble Telescope Wastes No Time, Captures Cool New Pics of Misfit Galaxies - Gizmodo Australia
Jul 20, 2021 1 min, 15 secs

It was looking grim there for a while, but Hubble is back in business after a computer glitch kept the space telescope offline for over a month.

Unsavoury billionaires blasting off into space are making us grouchy, so thank goodness for the Hubble Space Telescope.

The storied observatory represents all that’s good about our ventures into space; to date, the telescope has taken more than 1.5 million observations of objects near and far, and its data has been cited in more than 18,000 scientific publications, according to NASA.

But recently it looked as though Hubble’s historic reign may be over, when a computer glitch shut down the show on June 13.

Dalcanton is an early beneficiary of Hubble’s resuscitation, as her team is using the space-based telescope to gather images of peculiar galaxies, including an interacting pair and a large spiral galaxy with an extra appendage.

The newly released view is Hubble’s first high-resolution image of the system.

So yeah, Hubble goes back to work, and we’re instantly learning new things.

Like the Milky Way, ARP-MADORE0002-503 is a spiral galaxy.

Unlike the Milky Way, however, this galaxy has three spiral arms instead of the usual two.

It’s also a lot bigger than our galaxy, featuring a radius of 163,000 light-years, making it about three times wider than the Milky Way.

After three decades of dutiful service, Hubble continues to act as our watchful eye on the cosmos, and there’s something very comforting about that.

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