Hubble’s New Eyes

There was nothing unusually stunning about the first photos taken with the new, more powerful camera installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. Except for one thing: They came.

Imagine, a bunch of astronauts up there bolting a new camera onto an observatory that orbits our planet. This is dangerous stuff! The flexibility built into this venerable observatory that allows engineer/astronauts to get under its hood made the first photos incredibly special.

And they are awfully pretty, too.

Wow. Zoom in on Hubble's first four new images

Hubble's new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) promises a whole new era of even more detailed science and art from the decade-old observatory.

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