![]() NASA did a work-around by switching to backup units and rebooting the system, writes Brandon Specktor for. While some of the retired staff connected remotely because of Covid-19 restrictions, others still working at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland pored over old manuscripts and documents looking for clues to fix the problem.Īfter weeks of head scratching and problem solving, old and young engineers determined a glitch in the computer’s power control unit was the likely culprit. When that happened, NASA scrambled to contact team members who had worked on the telescope three and four decades earlier, reports Tariq Malik of. The Hubble main computer shut down June 13, placing all instruments in safe mode. Of course, the new images would not have been possible if older scientists had not been available to help service the telescope. Pictured right: ARP-MADORE0002-503 is a large spiral galaxy with three unusual, extended spiral arms.Ĭredits: Science: NASA, ESA, STScI, Julianne Dalcanton (UW) Image processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) Via NASA: Pictured left: ARP-MADORE2115-273 is a rarely observed example of a pair of interacting galaxies in the southern hemisphere. ![]() “I’ll confess to having had a few nervous moments during Hubble’s shutdown, but I also had faith in NASA’s amazing engineers and technicians,” she says in a news release posted on NASA’s Hubble website. They are using the restored Hubble, which orbits Earth at 340 miles in altitude, to collect images of unusual galaxies. The photos were produced by a team led by astronomer Julianne Dalcanton of the University of Washington in Seattle. Two black-and-white photos in particular provide incredible detail of two distant galaxies-a rare view of ARP-MADORE2115-273, a system with interacting stars located 297 million light-years from Earth, and ARP-MADORE0002-503, an unusual three-tailed spiral cluster about 490 million light-years away, reports George Dvorsky for Gizmodo. Hubble went back online July 17 and has been relaying spectacular images back to Earth ever since.
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