A Quote by Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal of Great Britain



Telescopes are in some ways like time machines...
They reveal galaxies so far away that their light has taken billions of years to reach us. We in astronomy have an advantage in studying the universe, in that we can actually see the past. We owe our existence to stars, because they make the atoms of which we are formed. So if you are romantic you can say we are literally starstuff. If you're less romantic you can say we're the nuclear waste from the fuel that makes stars shine. We've made so many advances in our understanding. A few centuries ago, the pioneer navigators learnt the size and shape of our Earth, and the layout of the continents. We are now just learning the dimensions and ingredients of our entire cosmoc, and can at last make some sense of our cosmic habitat.



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Monday, February 8, 2010

Hubble takes pictures of Pluto


Our most distant planet Pluto gets photographed by Hubble. The photographs that you see is a set of many pictures taken by Hubble.
Nasa says that photographing Pluto is as challenging as spotting little markings on a soccer ball 40 miles away. These pictures of Pluto will be the best Pluto pics available until we have Nasa's New Horizon Probe six months closer to its Pluto flyby in 2015. Way to go New Horozon!!!

Courtesy: Nasa.gov

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