Today NASA released stunning pictures of galaxies, stars and nebulae new cameras captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. “Hubble is back, ready to explore new worlds, listening to the depths of space and to map the invisible backbone of the universe” , U.S. space agency said in a statement. The observatory, in danger of being left to die in space after 19 years of operation, was repaired last May in a rescue mission of shuttle Atlantis at a cost of 1,100 million dollars. “This is a new beginning for the Hubble,” said Ed Weiler, associate administrator of NASA’s scientific board. “The telescope received a total refurbishment and is now more powerful than ever, equipped until the next decade,” he said. Among the most stunning images include those of several galaxies, a motley collection of stars and nebulae “butterfly”, NASA said.
With the spread of these images, astronomers have declared that totally rejuvenated Hubble, NASA said, after Sen. Barbara Mikulski announced today would give them at a ceremony in Washington.
In addition to performing repair work, the Atlantis astronauts installed a camera that can detect stars and galaxies over a wide expanse of the electromagnetic spectrum from ultraviolet to infrared light.
Moreover, the new spectrograph lets dissect the light of the universe and search for the distribution of elements that may be essential in the creation of life, NASA said. But besides looking at the Earth without the distortion of the atmosphere, the Hubble with new instruments may conduct a census of objects, rocks and asteroids in the Kuiper Belt on the outskirts of the solar system. It may also be a direct witness to the birth of planets around other stars and analyze the composition and structure of the atmospheres of other worlds.
According to NASA, Hubble is also equipped to look at galaxies that were born when the Universe was only 500 million years, and to study the mysterious force that causes the increasingly rapid expansion of our universe. All new discoveries that NASA expects will be added to the many that it has completed the telescope. Without the atmospheric distortion, capturing images of bodies and phenomena never before seen, like stars surrounded by cosmic dust that could become planetary systems, galaxies at edge of the universe, the collision of stars and evidence that most of the constellations have black holes at their center. In addition, Hubble helped determine the age of the universe is about 13,700 million years, that the planet formation process is similar in the universe and discovered the first organic molecule on a planet orbiting another star, and also provides speed expansion of the universe.
The first space telescope revolves in an orbit concentric to 610 miles above Earth. EFE.