I found out a few days ago, from my Sky at Night magazine, that they reversed the decision to decommission The Hubble Space Telescope and give it one last tour of glory.
I cannot tell you guys how much that pleases me as it would be ridiculous in my mind to throw that magnificent piece of machinery away like that. It out performed and out lived it's expected specifications by a multitude (after the initial disastrous start and subsequent "tweaking"). We will not know for many years to come yet exactly what we owe to this telescope as all the data has not yet been fully analysed, but it is clear that it already is phenomenal and will only get better.
I can remember my first moments of pure awe when I was shown a Hubble deep field image with those heaps and heaps of galaxies absolutely everywhere. They expected the opposite and some argued they would see very little "occupation" in those outer regions. How wrong they were and what a brilliant images they are.
I like to hear your view on this and perhaps you can remember your first image of Hubble and what you thought at the time?
Follows an article about the Hubble repair programme.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/12/21/hubble-telescope-nasa.html?dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000
Follows my first Hubble image I saw.
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/1997/images/hubbledeep.jpg
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