Hubble Telescope is 18 years old today!

[Duppers]

Happy Birthday Hubble Telescope!

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/popup?id=1884338









This is my favorite pics of Saturn (from NASA's earth observatory site):

[tridim]

1. Even NASA manages to get a good bang to buck ratio occasionally

Hubble and the Mars probes have been massively successful. More please!

[Hand]

3. Let's not forget Voyager 1 and 2, either!

More than thirty years on, they're still talking to us from way the hell out there! :toast: :loveya:

[beam me up scottie]

2. Happy Birthday!

And may it have many more!

[Duppers]

4. I like that one.

thanks for posting it.

[beam me up scottie]

5. You're welcome!

I just posted 2 more, I have APOD on my Google home page and it's wonderful.

[Ian David]

7. That's awesome! I've been wanting to have sex with The Hubble Telescope for years now! n/t

[beam me up scottie]

8. snort!

Hubbie's debut in Telescopes Gone Wild should be out soon!

[Duppers]

13. more...

Colliding Galaxies

Scroll through these...
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/04/24/hubble-galaxies.html

[beam me up scottie]

15. Those are incredible!

I can't believe we almost lost the Hubble because of bush.

[YankeyMCC]

6. An excellent anniversary to Mark!

Thank you to all the people that brought Hubble into reality and those that have - and hopefully continue too - kept it going!

[shireen]

10. you're welcome

:)

[Jack Rabbit]

9. Now that's a birthday worth celebrating

:party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party:


CNN

[ChairmanAgnostic]

11. I wonder. Who would Hubble vote for?

The replacement is still on the drawing boards (unless the creeps from BushCo canned it) and they wanted to let this thing crash?

[bahrbearian]

12. If Hubble is so great then,

why isn't there a picture of Jesus riding a dinosaur?

[beam me up scottie]

16. Where have you been?

[tblue37]

14. Still too young to celebrate with a drink. n/t