Please say its not true! Hubble’s main camera is not working.
January 29th, 2007
Just heard the news and I am so devastated! The ACS camera on the Hubble is not working; its the main camera and it does not seem likley that it will get fixed in 2008 mission either. Just when things were getting interesting! All the intersting pictures, like the deep field view, came from that camera.
Hubble is the extension of my eyes and the distances it sees is the extension of my vision. It could see 12-13 Billion light years away, so it was like my vision was 20/17×10^23!
I won’t be able to see supernovae, and the more detailed dark matter map will have to wait, darn… I am so dejected! Every night after the lights are turned off, I will be thinking about all the things I can’t see because the Hubble camera is not working!
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