The Hubble telescope, even after 19 years of service, is flying once again. The space shuttle "Atlantis" released the space telescope into orbit once again at 8:57am EST May 19th, 2009. I'm a big fan of all things space, the band Muse's eccentric obsession with this is only part of why I love them. But more importantly, the Hubble Telescope takes some of the most breathtaking images of our universe that could ever be imagined, and this is due to its position outside our atmosphere.
The reason the Hubble can spot such amazing things like faraway galaxies with sterling quality images is because there's less effect of light refraction and variables caused by our otherwise murky atmosphere (don't be fooled by pristine cloudless nights and a sky of stars, that shit is dirty.)
As testament to this amazing machine's reemergence into the spatial realm, I'm going to put a few Hubble pictures up here courtesy of the world wide web's image searches, and let us all gather under our proverbial night skies with a blanket or two and enjoy.
Pass the smores...
Good stuff...
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