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4 months ago
"What Do You Know About Spherical Aberration?"

"What do you know about spherical aberration?"

"when amateurs build mirrors and do it sloppily they get what's called a downturned edge, and on different radii of the mirror it focuses the light on different parts of the optical axis and it's physically impossible to ever focus a telescope; they're useless."

"Well you launched Hubble Space Telescope with a spherically aberrated mirror."


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4 weeks ago
Open arms
A waterfall of stars
Different generation
NGC 6302 & NGC 7027
Pocketful of stars
An encounter of two spiral galaxies
Starburst galaxy Messier 82
ACS image of NGC 5866
Galactic wreckage in stephanis Quintelet
Tarantula
AG Carinae
Red spiders Nebula: Surfing in sagittarius
Lights continues to echo three year after stellar outburst
Orion nebula
Crab nebula
Starshed lights on the past
Saturn portrait
The stellar forge
Galaxies galore
New infrared views of Horsehead nebula
Antenna Galaxies
Extreme star cluster bursts into life
Galaxy NGC 2525
Rings of relativity
Westerlund 2
Tapestry of Blazing Star birth

My favourite space images from Hubble space telescope. Thank you so much for giving us the stunning visuals of galaxies, stars and nebula. Happy 35th anniversary to the Hubble space telescope 🔭


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