It is a recovery of the hopes and dreams of the hundreds of people involved in bringing Hubble back online over the past month, and of those countless others who have worked on the mission since its inception five decades ago. This is so much more than a recovery of a telescope. She said that STScI’s director Ken Sembach told the astronomers and staff at his institute, via a note: Hammel works via AURA (STScI’s parent organization) on behalf of both Hubble and the soon-to-be-launched Webb telescope, Hubble’s successor. Hammel wrote about it in a blog post on July 16. But first a word about what this telescope means to astronomers. Julianne Dalcanton of the University of Washington in Seattle leads the galaxy program. The images show a beautiful pair of oddball galaxies, part of a program to survey oddball galaxies scattered across the sky. Today, (July 19, 2021), the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore ( STScI) released the first images from Hubble since its rebooting. The great, but aging, telescope finally resumed science operations on July 15, after its handlers switched it to backup hardware. The problem had to do with a degrading computer memory module. And a team of experts worked feverishly to repair it throughout late June and early July. The orbiting telescope had been in a protective safe mode since June 13, 2021. The dream livesĪstronomers are breathing easier this week, since the Hubble Space Telescope has come back online. The orbiting telescope was launched in 1990. | A pair of oddball galaxies – both hundreds of thousands of light-years from us – captured by the Hubble Space Telescope following its reboot last weekend.
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