Friday, July 24, 2009

Wow! Jupiter's Black Eye As Seen By Hubble

Just a very quick post. They got a picture of Jupiter's recent collision with the Hubble Space Telescope.


Wow! Look at that detail! This was taken by the Wide Field Planetary Camera 3 (WFPC 3, or "whiff pick" if you want to sound cool) which was installed on the mos recent servicing mission. The camera has not been fully calibrated yet, but they couldn't pass up this opportunity so an imperfect image is better than none (although its hard to argue with this image too much!)

Now if only these clouds would clear so I can try to shoot it here!

Reprinted with permission from the Half-Astrophysicist Blog.

5 comments:

OrbsCorbs said...

You mean through a telephoto lens or telescope, right? You can't see the impact with the naked eye, can you?

drewzepmeister said...

This would be great to see!

MinnesotaChick said...

Quote "a picture of Jupiter's recent collision with the Hubble Space Telescope."

OMGosh! I thought Hubble collided with Jupiter too! ;)

Really a great picture!

hale-bopp said...

Okay,DA, guess that could have made Jay Leno's headlines if he was still doing them!

Yeah, Orbs. I was out observing with an 8 inch telescope the other night...might just be in reach with a good night of seeing. Unfortunately, I had an atrociously bad night of seeing.

Anonymous said...

Jupiter crashed into the Hubble Telescope???