FRIDAY SURPRISE: There's something out there

Friday, September 19, 2008 Filed in: Friday Surprise!, Completely irrelevant, Current Events

Those of a certain age will remember when, with great fanfare, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was launched. If you remember the event, you'll also remember a few weeks later it was revealed that the main mirror had a fatal flaw, and speculation abounded that the $1.5 billion telescope (a lot of money back in 1990) would be nearly useless.

That was, however, until the Space Shuttle got up there and repairs were made. Today it's all ancient history, as the repaired Hubble continues to send us some of the most amazing images ever taken of space.

The HST also makes some interesting discoveries. Just recently it was looking deep into space and captured an image of something. I say "something" because scientists can't figure out what it is - it just suddenly appeared in the middle of nowhere, then a few months later just as mysteriously disappeared.

(Cue Twilight Zone theme.)

Read about it here.

-=[ Grant ]=-

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