HTTP:: Hubble Photographs Most Distant Known Galaxies
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Scientists with alloted observation hours on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have recently announced that they've photographed the most distant galaxies ever observed with a telescope. Shuttle Atlantis' mission to the orbit-based observatory translated into a new batch of cameras and scientific equipment, which considerably increased the telescope's power. The recently imaged galaxies offered a bit of a surprise to astronomers, in that they were neither as bright, nor as active, as stellar formations go, as they were expected to be, Wired reports. The new study comes just days after the American space agency released the first scientific images taken with the famous Hubble, after the telescope spent months dealing with minor glitches and with cumbersome calibration processes. Even if not fully ready to snap photos just yet, its Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) was used to photograph the Pacific Ocean-size impact site on Jupiter, caused by a comet impacting the gas giant a coup!
le of months ago. The pictures that are only now being released are taken in infrared wavelengths, and were snapped between late August and early September this year. Although only preliminary analyses are in, and the numbers are estimative, the batch of galaxies that Hubble observed appears to be extremely far away. According to the ...
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