It's So Easy to Love the Hubble & the NASA
We here at HAWTaction love NASA and the Hubble. Before I celebrate Hubble's 100,000th orbit around our Green/Blue planet with you, let's take a look at our "space" coverage so far.- The Voyager Spacecraft Kick Ass! Prove Solar System is Not Straight! (12/11/07)
- NASA's Blue Marble, Next Generation Project (1/30/08)
- Hubble Telescope Turns 18. (Says Will Vote for Nader.) (4/24/08)
- NASA's Documenting the World: Myanmar and Chile (5/7/08)
- There's Water in Urine. NASA Finds It. (5/15/08)
- NASA: Water on Mars! wOOt! (6/20/08)
- Web_geM: The Earth and Moon (7/23/08)
As I pointed out in Hubble Telescope Turns 18. (Says Will Vote for Nader.), it's amazing Hubble's made it this far. When the switch was flipped on this bad boy, the images were blurry and the Hubble needed spectacles. Literally. (Kind of like the Viking spacecraft: The Voyager Spacecraft Kick Ass! Prove Solar System is Not Straight!) It's outlived it's life expectancy, and it's a miracle we're celebrating Hubble's work 100,000th revolutions into this game. To celebrate, NASA has released the latest batch of photos from Hubble's insane cameras.
This is the adorable star cluster NGC 2074:
Now, NASA has to overlay filters on this photo to give it
depth and sass, but that is one beautiful picture. I mean… I can stare into that all day. For some reason, when I do stare at it, I
feel like I’m Somewhere Over the Willy Wonka Rainbow. I see flying monkey eating giant lollipops,
cowardly lions running on river of chocolate, Emerald City with Escher-like
hallways. The only thing that would
please me more is a larger version of that photo.
Now you're seeing the Lollipop Kids in a glass elevator that moves in all directions, right?
Explore NASA more at hubblesite.org.
Happy rotationary, Hubble. You've done good, kid.
This is the adorable star cluster NGC 2074:
Now, NASA has to overlay filters on this photo to give it
depth and sass, but that is one beautiful picture. I mean… I can stare into that all day. For some reason, when I do stare at it, I
feel like I’m Somewhere Over the Willy Wonka Rainbow. I see flying monkey eating giant lollipops,
cowardly lions running on river of chocolate, Emerald City with Escher-like
hallways. The only thing that would
please me more is a larger version of that photo.
Click for a larger version.
Now you're seeing the Lollipop Kids in a glass elevator that moves in all directions, right?
Explore NASA more at hubblesite.org.
Happy rotationary, Hubble. You've done good, kid.
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NASA MSHMASA. I don't get your obsession with the bloated government department, John.
We need to cancel NASA and just start Starfleet. Let's really step into the future.
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It's funny, because it's the first time weather can be described a genius, enlightening and close-to-god.
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