Hubble Hubbub TBA

[PPI Karl]

On Wednesday (Jan. 26, 2011), NASA is expected to announce a new discovery made by the Hubble Space Telescope.  A teleconference is scheduled with reporters for 1 p.m. EST (1800 GMT) on Wednesday to announce and discuss the finding, which will also be published that day in the journal Nature.  The teleconference will be on live streaming broadcast on the NASA site.  A blurb about the conference (but no info on the actual findings, of course) is available at http://www.nasa.gov/news/media/newsaudio/index.html.

[Gary]

Maybe it found ma an apartment!   ::|

[PPI Brian]

With all the incredible discoveries this telescope has made over the years, this comes as no surprise. But I'm sitting on the edge of my seat anyway. Can't wait to hear what they discovered. 

[PPI Karl]

Maybe it found ma an apartment!   ::|

That might take the perspicacity of the Kepler, depending where you're looking for 'em.

[Mark.Yates]

Maybe it found ma an apartment!   ::|

They might need a bigger telescope for that

[PPI Tracy]

With all the incredible discoveries this telescope has made over the years, this comes as no surprise. But I'm sitting on the edge of my seat anyway. Can't wait to hear what they discovered. 

Ditto!

[PPI Karl]

So, the Hubble hubbub is that it has captured the oldest look yet, into the farthest reaches of the universe:  a galaxy that formed less than 500 million years after the Big Bang.  We're closing in, more and more, on the event, itself, and they predict we might even be able to see the universe as young as 200 million years, once the James Webb Space Telescope is launched in 2015 (Hubble's replacement).

There's an interest interesting video available on nasa.gov that zooms in on the galaxy in question:  
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=56257151

"This video is a zoom into the Hubble Space Telescope infrared Ultra Deep Field, first taken in 2009. It is a very small patch of sky in the southern constellation Fornax. The zoom centers on the farthest identified object in the field. The object, possibly a galaxy, looks red because its light has been stretched by the expansion of the universe."

Also, Space.com has an feature article about the discovery:  
http://www.space.com/10691-oldest-galaxy-discovered-hubble-space-telescope.html

Here's a full-size image of what Hubble discovered:

[PPI Tracy]

This is absolutely amazing.  Thank you so much for posting this, Karl.

[Mark.Yates]

Well it's great that we know these objects and events are or have happened in the universe but, wouldn't it be more prudent to try a figure a way to get there? Knowing and seeing is one thing. Getting there is another story.

[PPI Tracy]

Well it's great that we know these objects and events are or have happened in the universe but, wouldn't it be more prudent to try a figure a way to get there? Knowing and seeing is one thing. Getting there is another story.

Like any destination:  Ya gotta discover  it before trying to go there