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Hubble captures vivid auroras in Jupiter’s atmosphere
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- stuaxo 10y agoLooking forward to seeing this reposted on new age forums, as "Hubble Captures Jupiters Aura".
- fapjacks 10y agoI am so happy HST's mission was extended for another few years [0]! I would have funded a Kickstarter to keep it going, to be honest. If there's one thing Hubble does well, it's that it capture the hearts and minds of muggles like myself. HST is an amazing piece of machinery. [0] http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-extends-hubble-space-telescope-science-operations-contract/ http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-extends-hubble-space-...
- jessriedel 10y agoThat would have to be some kickstarter :) The operating costs of Hubble are about $100M/year.
- amock 10y agoAccording to the linked press release it will cost less than $200 million for an additional five years, so the cost is less than $40 million/year.
- jessriedel 10y agoI read elsewhere it cost $98M/yr recently, so it might be that this extension isnt maintaining the full capabilities.
- maxxxxx 10y agoLet's hope the James Webb Telescope deploys successfully and can take over then.
- Isamu 10y agoNote: the dramatic photo is a composite, of Jupiter in visible light and its auroras captured in UV.
- jessriedel 10y agoThank you. It's criminal that that's not mentioned in the caption to the photograph. As a positive note, the composite videos they released are pretty wild: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2016/24/video/ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2016/24/vi...
- throwaway_xx9 10y ago> It's criminal that that's not mentioned in the caption to the photograph Well ... all satellite images are taken with sensors tuned for a specific frequency range, so essentially B+W, then false-colored for human display. Unless an astronaut with a Hasselblad is pointing the lens out to space, you won't get the normal exposure that you're thinking of.
- edgarvaldes 10y agoThat detail is only exposed when you click in the image on the right. http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1613a/ http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1613a/
- readams 10y agoNearly every photo of space you see, especially from Hubble, is usually a composite, falsely colored, or otherwise altered in ways that bring out the important features of the photo. Note that the idea of "true color" for these sorts of astronomical photos is itself a bit ill-defined. Here's some information about the kinds of manipulations that might go into these photos: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/behind_the_pictures/meaning_of_color/ http://hubblesite.org/gallery/behind_the_pictures/meaning_of...
- Kenji 10y ago>Note that the idea of "true color" for these sorts of astronomical photos is itself a bit ill-defined. Why? Because of Relativistic Doppler Effect?
- donkeyd 10y agoThe timelapse is pretty cool! http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1613a/ http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1613a/
- dkelly2020 10y agoWould you have been able to see these auroras with the naked eye?