The main camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, which has revolutionized astronomy with its stunning pictures of the universe, has stopped working, engineers who work on the camera said.
The Advanced Camera for Surveys, a third-generation instrument installed by a space shuttle crew in 2002, went off line Monday, and engineers are still trying to figure out what happened and how to repair it.
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Hubble telescope's main camera has stopped working
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The spacewomen inform me that they have deliberately disabled the Hubble because they wish us to develop our "inner cosmic eye," which will, by 2012, render physically instrumented astronomical observation obsolete.
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