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April 6th 05, 08:58 AM
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Early Starlight, first stars
Do we wave goodbye to this sort of thing when hubble burns up? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4414481.stm 
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April 6th 05, 06:26 PM
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In message , Ray Vingnutte
writes Do we wave goodbye to this sort of thing when hubble burns up? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4414481.stm If it burns before its successor is launched, then yes. But the successor to HST (it is completed and launched successfully) is the James Webb Space Telescope, which is specifically aimed at that sort of distant target. What we lose is the wonderful results in visible and especially ultraviolet from objects closer to home. Losing HST is the equivalent of destroying Mount Palomar - only more expensive. Apologies if your question was rhetorical and you already knew that! -- Remove spam and invalid from address to reply.
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April 10th 05, 07:17 PM
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On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 18:26:19 +0100
Jonathan Silverlight wrote: In message , Ray Vingnutte writes Do we wave goodbye to this sort of thing when hubble burns up? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4414481.stm If it burns before its successor is launched, then yes. But the successor to HST (it is completed and launched successfully) is the James Webb Space Telescope, which is specifically aimed at that sort of distant target. What we lose is the wonderful results in visible and especially ultraviolet from objects closer to home. Losing HST is the equivalent of destroying Mount Palomar - only more expensive. Apologies if your question was rhetorical and you already knew that! -- Remove spam and invalid from address to reply. Have you seen this.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4426535.stm
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April 11th 05, 09:18 AM
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"Ray Vingnutte" wrote in message ... Do we wave goodbye to this sort of thing when hubble burns up? Have you seen this.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4426535.stm I love these new acronyms, ELT - Extemely Large Telescope TMT - Thirty Meter(sic) Telescope OWL - Overwhelmingly Large telescope I'm just waiting for the anouncement of the FET - King Enormous Telescope
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April 11th 05, 09:34 AM
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OG wrote:
"Ray Vingnutte" wrote in message ... Do we wave goodbye to this sort of thing when hubble burns up? Have you seen this.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4426535.stm I love these new acronyms, ELT - Extemely Large Telescope TMT - Thirty Meter(sic) Telescope OWL - Overwhelmingly Large telescope I'm just waiting for the anouncement of the FET - King Enormous Telescope ...or the FHT.
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April 13th 05, 01:07 AM
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"Ray Vingnutte" wrote in message news  Do we wave goodbye to this sort of thing when hubble burns up? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4414481.stm of course not! it will be sad to see it go for sure but there will be newer and better ones in the future. (providing there is a future  )
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