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

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.

Unsavory 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.

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.

2.6 million people watched it live - the vast majority were not haters.