HUBBLE TELESCOPE SENDS BACK ANNOYING STREAM OF SELFIES
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, whose mission is to capture images that help scientists better understand the universe, has instead spent much of the past several weeks transmitting an annoying series of self-portraits, NASA scientists confirmed today.
NASA officials were alarmed in mid-November, when, ignoring their orders, the Hubble extended a long robotic arm in order to get a good vantage point on itself and began snapping thousands of blurry, low-resolution photos.
Despite NASA’s repeated instructions to the Hubble to look for evidence of water on distant planets, the telescope continued to produce more and more self-portraits, posting them to its Instagram and Twitter accounts along with the hashtag #pimpin.
Harland Dorrinson, operations manager at the Johnson Space Center, said that NASA had monitored the images sent back by the Hubble since 1990, but that if it persists in sending back nothing but self-portraits, NASA would “probably stop following it.”
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/12/hubble-telescope-sends-back-annoying-stream-of-selfies.html#entry-more
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Plus, dozens of sites are reporting one new picture of the galaxies etc. posted daily for the 2013 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar.
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/11/national-geographic-photo-contest-2013-part-ii/100637/
Here's the picture from December 4th:
Pictures from the 1st 2nd and 3rd can be found at above link. (also, higher resolution pictures at link - some desktop/wallpaper material if'n ya ask me!)
Now, the article does not say these pics were sent on that day;
just that "Every day until Wednesday, December 25, this page will present an amazing new image of our universe from NASA's Hubble telescope."
Now, another thing - where are these self images?
The curious want to know.
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