Hubble's heavenly heritage

Eric, Salinas, CA — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:25:47 GMT

My favorite Hubble pciture is the Pillars of Creation. The one at top is also wondrous, heck they're all wondrous. Hubble has been an excellent example of taxpayer money well spent on cutting edge science.

I sure hope that whatever failed recently on Hubble can be determined and repaired. I'm glad it went south just before the repair mission launched rather than after it was done.

Hubble's heavenly heritage

Sarah, Columbia, MD — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:15:12 GMT

God's creation is a wonder. Check out galaxyzoo.com too. Lots of neat science is around us. We in America should invest in science, as a country. God's works are too complex to reduce to words, but it's a start...for me there is no conflict between science and religion.

Hubble's heavenly heritage

fadda eart — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:16:05 GMT

The image looks like any shoreline on Earth...after the make believe clouds, irradiated plankton, plastic wrapped glaciers, and reforestation via 'tree bombing' experiments have run full circle.
The sparkly stuff is some entirely new life form building up along the shoreline before escaping from the Ocean, heading off to greener pastures...far beyond Earth's poisoned confines.
Other than that thought, it's really beautiful, eh?
If images like the above can't convince Humans that it's all the same constantly changing place, and you are in it by some curious quirk of something or other...then you are stuck at point A forever.
The image above is as close, and immediately attainable as you can make it...or as far away as you choose...it's up to ya'll!
Remember...here is part of the Universe too...it's all the same place and WE are in it!!!
Let your fascination guide you...it got you this far.

Hubble's heavenly heritage

S.B.Stein E.B. NJ — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:35:41 GMT

Ah, the beauty of the sky. To fully understand how it was done will require Hubble and other satelites to continue to observe the deepest regions of space. I hope that this continues to inspire artists and researchers.

Hubble's heavenly heritage

Becky — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:38:07 GMT

I love the Pillars, too. My other favorite is the Deep Field. So amazing.

Hubble's heavenly heritage

Robert R Altenhof Leesburg Virginia — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:54:00 GMT

What Bud Rigby and Jack Kurdock and the rest of the Perkin-Elmer team accomplished will stand as one of the most outstanding statements of perfection and dedication in the history of large science. Tragically, testing methodology obscured the fact that the Hubble Optics were, and still are, the only example of the most perfect objects ever made by mankind. BRAVO!