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Hubble’s Hidden Treasures Unveiled

Friday, August 24, 2012 12:13
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A quick check of Hubble’s gallery shows just 1,300 images; however more than raw 700,000 images reside in a vast archive with hundreds of potentially jaw-dropping astronomical scenes just waiting to be uncovered. That was the idea behind the European Space Agency’s international contest called Hubble’s Hidden Treasures. And now with the hard work of amateur astronomers and more than 3,000 submissions, some of Hubble’s incredible celestial treasures are revealed.

“The response was impressive, with almost 3000 submissions,” the ESA said in a press release. “More than a thousand of these images were fully processed: a difficult and time-consuming task. We’ve already started featuring the best of these in our Hubble Picture of the Week series.”

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  • Anonymous

    LOOK AT PICTURES FROM 40years ago,taken with those old telescopes,see any difference???,AND the world believes NASA,would spend trillions to put HUBBLE out there to just look around at space,hahaha, IN 2008 they encripped all transmissions from HUBBLE “WHY” was HUBBLE LOOKING AT SOMETHING THEY DIDN’T WANT YOU TO SEE????? YEA,NIBIRU,either there lieing or the tax payers of america got screwed,and your never going to see what HUBBLE is really seeing,till the day NIBIRU SHOWS UP, you won’t need HUBBLE then cause it will be to late by then to care……………….

  • Anonymous

    cencorship on the internet IS treason,look up treason in wilipedia,summary excutiable offence for treason,HOW many people are guilty and haven’t considered the fact their name is on a list or computor some where and some day their door will be kicked in and they will be dragged out in the middle of the night to discover their going to be exicuted for treason,do they care no they think they can talk their way out of it,”out of a treason charge??” hahaha,wake up you don’t make enough money to make it worth ever haveing to face a treason charge,especialy if you realize the planet is over crowded and won’t miss you at all…………………………..

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