Space Fan News #19: Hubble Turns 21, Still Can't Get a Beer in a Bar

My employer, the Space Telescope Science Institute, released an image and a really cool animation to commemorate Hubble's 21st birthday.

Press release here:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2011/11/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• hubble
• space
• telescope
• astronomy
• arp 273
• colliding galaxies
• science
• cosmology
• galaxies

[jessemaurais]

I love the 3D effect. In a related story, I saw the Hubble 3D movie at the IMAX, and was blown away. I was also incredibly high.

[deriamis]

I am exactly 10 years older than Hubble. ;-) One of the best things ever to happen on my birthday, in my opinion.

[seppomuppit]

@nuclearpuddin Nope, I can hear it right now bro.

[Anduy]

I had a mindgasm when the music started playing

[Spakaford1]

Music plz

[Helge129]

@nuclearpuddin That is actually a misconception. Put a membrane in a vacuum and point a laser occilimeter at it. You Will get sound. But it's far too weak for the human ear or a microphone to pick it up.

[nuclearpuddin]

No galexies dont make and sound when they collide because space has no air so theres no way for the sound to go

[SquirrelFromGradLife]

Is that the actual sound made when galaxies collide?

[Edsan91]

@cbhangale I believe he works along side the hubble space telescope :), I think in the future he will work alongside the JWST The James Webb Space Telescope. He announced it once in a video and I was excited and proud, all of us viewers were! So that might answer your question

[Nekobe24]

@HappyHippo

There are likely stars and planets that got thrown out of their galaxies due to gravitational interactions with other stars, or during mergers of galaxies such as these two. I think it would be extremely rare for an entire solar system to be thrown out of a galaxy intact. It'd be much more likely that some or all of the planets would have their orbits disrupted and eventually go flying off on their own, away from their parent star.

[HappyHippoShit]

just a random thought/question for anyone that might know, is there stars or small solar systems just out floating around outside of a galaxy or are they all in one of some sort?

[sneakerset]

@LeHizik You'd be picking a great career. Astro-science mentors are extremely helpful and enthusiatic. It's a demanding field (of multiple disciplines)..with a huge sense of duty,responsibility,and trust. The pathway: keen interest (at the onset),summer internship, graduate student internship,and finally...peer acceptance (with the willingness to share knowledge and ideas). The people in Astro-science make it look easy...because of the expenditure of a great deal of time,resources,and expertise.