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Hubble as a Teenager Roger Blandford KIPAC Stanford
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Lyman Spitzer 1946 “… would be, not to supplement our present ideas of the universe we live in, but rather to uncover new phenomena not yet imagined, and perhaps to modify profoundly our basic concepts of space and time.''
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Top Ten Hubble Space Telescope Excuses David Letterman 10. The guy at Sears promised it would work fine. 9. Some kids on Earth must be fooling around with a garage door opener. 8. There's a little doohickey rubbing against the part that looks kind of like a cowboy hat. 7. See if you can think straight after 12 days of drinking Tang. 6. Bum with squeegee smeared lens at red, light. 5. Blueprints drawn up by that "Hey Vern! guy. 4. Those damn raccoons! 3. Shouldn't have used G.E. components. 2. Ran out of quarters. 1. Race of super-evolved galactic beings are screwing with us.
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Hubble Repair Mission 1993
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Hubble as a child
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Hubble at 12 years old
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Hubble Today Science not tailing off SM4 canceled; robotic options under study Power, gyro lifetime concerns Impact of Exploration Initiative All of space science is doing extraordinarily well
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Other Science Explorer Program reduced Beyond Einstein delayed deferred SEC program reduced…
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Hubble Today Science not tailing off SM4 canceled; robotic options under study Power, gyro lifetime concerns Impact of Exploration Initiative All of space science is doing extraordinarily well Emphasize primacy of science in decision making and contingency planning
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Planets Sedna (w/o moon) HD 209458 Transit and absorption spectrum
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Star Formation NGC604 Lynx Arc
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Black Holes M- relation?
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Galaxies M64 Ring galaxy Sombrero M4 White dwarfs
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Galaxies M51 GALEX Chandra
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Cosmology SNIa
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More Essential Science Stellar Black Holes –X-ray binaries, microlensing Intermediate Black Holes –First Stars –ULX sources Supernovae –Type II Supernova Remnants –Chandra, XMM, neutron stars Gamma Ray Bursts –Swift, GLAST
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More Essential Science Cluster cooling problem –Missing SX emission, OUV spectroscopy Gravitational Lensing –Galactic lens samples, Hubble constant –Calibrate WF weak lensing –Faint galaxy distances using clusters Faint galaxy distances, properties and evolution –Detailed cluster models
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More Essential Science Impact of new telescopes –SST, EVLA –Panchromatic studies of star formation etc Survey Science, follow up –GALEX, GLAST, Herschel, Planck, ALMA HST Archive –Virtual Observatory
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“Today, we have reached far out into space. Our immediate neighborhood we know rather intimately. But with increasing distance our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly, until at the last dim horizon we search among ghostly errors of observation for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. The urge is older than history. It is not satisfied and will not be suppressed.”
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