Hubble Telescope Snaps Images of Tarantula Nebula

An anonymous reader writes "NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped a series new images inside the Tarantula Nebula, located within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – the third closest galaxy to the Milky Way. Hubble officials previously released images of the spidery nebula, however, this is the deepest view of the intriguing cosmic region full of star clusters yet."

Feel small?

[Christian Smith]

I do!

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[oodaloop]

Maybe you should try one of those pumps.

Typo

[Anonymous Coward]

"NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped a series new"

I think you accidentally a word.

Re:Typo

[Thanshin]

In journalism, as in Jazz, it's the words you don't say that matter.

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[fisted]

and won't show up in a pcap.

Wow, by design? -_-

Missing words

[wonkey_monkey]

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped a series of new images of the inside of the Tarantula Nebula

Maybe Slashdot should have someone look submissions over and correct errors - "edit" them, if you will. We could call them "editors." Hey, you could even pay them money so they don't do a half-arsed job of it!

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[TheloniousToady]

Why don't they just crowd-source it like everything else here? They could add a feature to the article preview page to correct the article, then they could have modders validate the changes. Oh, that would involve paying "programmers".

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[MachineShedFred]

Yeah, because the crowdsourced moderation is so free of flaws, and never abused.

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[TheloniousToady]

Good point. I retract the suggestion.

(Moderators: please mark parent as a Troll for disagreeing with me.)

Source link

[melikamp]

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2014/02/image/ [hubblesite.org]

Stop with space.com slashvertisements already, it's nauseating.

space.com are leeches who are not competent enough to link to the frigging Hubble site. You know, the very minimum of what one can do to credit the work of the people who actually built the space telescope, took these amazing pictures, processed them, and brought them to the masses.

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[GiantRobotMonster]

Thanks for the link -- the space.com images are very low resolution (even when you click on the "full size image" link); the real images are MUCH better!

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[jafac]

note to space.com: defeats the purpose.

"snaps"

[Woek]

Funny use of the word "snaps", considering the exposure time of 103 hours (TFA [hubblesite.org]). But I guess, on a cosmological scale...

Tarantula?

[sharknado]

Looks more like a giant squid than a tarantula. (Seriously, am I the only one that doesn't see it?)

space photos

[volmtech]

To bad they can't focus it on West Virgina chemical storage tanks to check for leaks.

Easily visible to naked eye

[aberglas]

For those in the Northern hemisphere, this appears to be about as bright as the great nebula of Orion, which itself is pretty impressive. But the Orion nebula is some 1,200 light years away, whereas the Tarantula is 160,000 light years away!