Happy Birthday, Hubble

Well, it's been up there twenty years, now. And in all that time, the Hubble Telescope has been doing some incredible things. There's that Deep Field view for starters, wonderful work there. Some cracking pics of the Eagle Nebula which stayed on my desktop for a good two years. And then quite recently this rather stunning image of the Butterfly Nebula.

Breathtaking.

I know that these aren't true images, I know they've been enhanced and artificially coloured but I don't care, it's still a marvellous piece of human engineering. One can only imagine how good the James Webb telescope is going to be!

Busy, busy, busy

Dreadfully sorry, it's been rather a long time since my last post. I do have an excuse though, my book has been progressing very nicely and I'm about 1/3 or maybe even 2/5ths of the way through. I don't think it'll be finished by the end of the year but who knows?





Anyway, I'm not the only one who's been busy, those rather splendid people working on the Hubble telescope have been doing stuff since the big beast itself was upgraded. Look at this, for example. And taken from the same site...

All very pretty. Well, who knows, in a few years time we may even get an upgraded version of the Deep Field video. In case you haven't seen it, here it is.

Personally I think it is the most humbling, yet the most incredible and uplifting thing I've seen in a long while. Well, since this, anyway.