Incredible Hubble Space Telescope Universe Photos
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I love this sort of thing. Pics are amazing and mind-boggling. Thanks for posting. 
Simply amazing sights
Wow.....awesome photos. Thanks for sharing these.. Getting a total eclipse of the sun at 0645 Wednesday 14th Nov over here in North Queensland Australia. We be out and about to see it.
Wow how stunning are those
So now the thing to ask, are we really alone 
I am with you on this it is just too much to expect looking at the vastness of what we can just see let alone what we cannot see
The Hubble space telescope has been an amazing scientific experiment. It has give us so many awesome photos. Thanks for the post, AJ.
Wow!! AJ, Silli - THANKS for posting these. Incredible beauty! Love this kind of stuff.
I am rather proud to say that the lens that is used in the Hubble Space Telescope was created, ground, and polished at a place only about 10 minutes from my home.
I remember when they transported it from there on a flatbed truck that they had to close the highways and remove overhead wires and such along the route it was so huge.
Then it was a bit embarrassing when they got it into space and the thing couldn't focus correctly.
But it turned out that it wasn't that it was done wrong, but whoever gave then the specifications made a mistake.
They had to launch another crew in the Space Shuttle to go up and change the software and correct for the incorrect specifications.
So now the thing to ask, are we really alone
Well, mathematically, that's improbable.
With the vastness of the Universe, the odds are we aren't the only living things and in fact we probably came from asteroids or comets.
But I also read last night that even the UFO groups are beginning to doubt that we've actually ever been visited by any other living beings......
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/9653499/UFO-enthusiasts-admit-the-truth-may-not-be-out-there-after-all.html
UFO enthusiasts admit the truth may not be out there after all
Declining numbers of “flying saucer” sightings and failure to establish proof of alien existence has led UFO enthusiasts to admit they might not exist after all.
For decades, they have been scanning the skies for signs of alien activity.
But having failed to establish any evidence for the existence of extraterrestrial life, Britain’s UFO watchers are reaching the conclusion that the truth might not be out there after all.
Enthusiasts admit that a continued failure to provide proof and a decline in the number of “flying saucer” sightings suggests that aliens do not exist after all and could mean the end of “Ufology” – the study of UFOs – within the next decade.
Dozens of groups interested in the flying saucers and other unidentified craft have already closed because of lack of interest and next week one of the country’s foremost organisations involved in UFO research is holding a conference to discuss whether the subject has any future.
Dave Wood, chairman of the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena (Assap), said the meeting had been called to address the crisis in the subject and see if UFOs were a thing of the past.
“It is certainly a possibility that in ten years time, it will be a dead subject,” he added.
“We look at these things on the balance of probabilities and this area of study has been ongoing for many decades.
“The lack of compelling evidence beyond the pure anecdotal suggests that on the balance of probabilities that nothing is out there.
“I think that any UFO researcher would tell you that 98 per cent of sightings that happen are very easily explainable. One of the conclusions to draw from that is that perhaps there isn’t anything there. The days of compelling eyewitness sightings seem to be over.”
He said that far from leading to an increase in UFO sightings and research, the advent of the internet had coincided with a decline.
Assap’s UFO cases have dropped by 96 per cent since 1988, while the number of other groups involved in UFO research has fallen from well over 100 in the 1990s to around 30 now.
Among those to have closed are the British Flying Saucer Bureau, the Northern UFO Network, and the Northern Anomalies Research Organisation.
As well as a fall in sightings and lack of proof, Mr Wood said the lack of new developments meant that the main focus for the dwindling numbers of enthusiasts was supposed UFO encounters that took place several decades ago and conspiracy theories that surround them.
In particular, he cited the Roswell incident, in 1947 when an alien spaceship is said to have crashed in New Mexico, and the Rendlesham incident in 1980, often described as the British equivalent, when airmen from a US airbase in Suffolk reported a spaceship landing.
Mr Wood added: “When you go to UFO conferences it is mainly people going over these old cases, rather than bringing new ones to the fore.
“There is a trend where a large proportion of UFO studies are tending towards conspiracy theories, which I don’t think is particularly helpful.”
The issue is to be debated at a summit at the University of Worcester on November 17 and the conclusions reported in the next edition of the association’s journal, Anomaly.
The organisation, which describes itself as an education and research charity, was established in 1981. Its first president was Michael Bentine, the comedian and member of the Goons.
It contains both sceptics and believers in UFOs and has been involved in several notable sightings and theories over the years.
Its current president Lionel Fanthorpe has claimed in its journal that King Arthur was an alien who came to Earth to save humans from invading extraterrestrials.
The summit follows the emergence earlier this year of the news that the Ministry of Defence was no longer investigating UFO sightings after ruling there is “no evidence” they pose a threat to the UK.
David Clark, a Sheffield Hallam University academic and the UFO adviser to the National Archives, said: “The subject is dead in that no one is seeing anything
evidential.
“Look at all the people who now have personal cameras. If there was something flying around that was a structured object from somewhere else, you would have thought that someone would have come up with some convincing footage by now – but they haven’t.
“The reason why nothing is going on is because of the internet. If something happens now, the internet is there to help people get to the bottom of it and find an explanation.
“Before then, you had to send letters to people, who wouldn’t respond and you got this element of mystery and secrecy that means things were not explained.
“The classic cases like Roswell and Rendlesham are only classic cases because they were not investigated properly at the time.”
But Nick Pope, who ran the MoD’s UFO desk from 1991 to 1994 and now researches UFO sightings privately, said there was a future for the subject: “There’s a quantity versus quality issue here.
“So many UFO sightings these days are attributable to Chinese lanterns that more interesting sightings are sometimes overlooked.
“The same is true with photos and videos. There are so many fakes on YouTube and elsewhere, it would be easy to dismiss the whole subject out of hand.
“The danger is that we throw out the baby with the bathwater. And as I used to say at the MoD, the believers only have to be right once.”
I remember that and it has performed so well ever since.
Thanks for sharing these AJ
I was listening to a program on the History Channel this morning and heard them discussing the Hubble. I hadn't been paying much attention to the program and missed what they said but I did catch the comment that NASA is working on the replacement/companion telescope that will take the technology learned from the work with the Hubble and bring an even more advanced telescope into use.
I was listening to a program on the History Channel this morning and heard them discussing the Hubble. I hadn't been paying much attention to the program and missed what they said but I did catch the comment that NASA is working on the replacement/companion telescope that will take the technology learned from the work with the Hubble and bring an even more advanced telescope into use.
Knowledge.
A direct benefit would be hard to confirm but the additional related benefits could be too numerous for me to count.
The technology used by the various space/rocket programs fuels new consumer products. MicroSoft, Apple, Samsung, Triumph, Honda, VW, . . . benefits from the research that goes into such projects. I don't think there is very many industries or individuals that do not in some way or multiple way benefit from these programs. So in my way of thinking, yes the benefits are worth the cost. Besides, I like my LED TV. YMMV
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The technology used by the various space/rocket programs fuels new consumer products. MicroSoft, Apple, Samsung, Triumph, Honda, VW, . . . benefits from the research that goes into such projects. I don't think there is very many industries or individuals that do not in some way or multiple way benefit from these programs. So in my way of thinking, yes the benefits are worth the cost. Besides, I like my LED TV. YMMV
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