Upgraded Hubble telescope's newest pictures

After fixing Hubble's gyroscopes, batteries and equipment for the last time a few months ago, the first public images of the universe using the Wide Field Camera 3 are out.

All new images can be found at the official site.

those are awesome, thanks TC

"Colorful Stars Galore Inside Globular Star Cluster Omega Centauri" I like.super_mario_128

Awesome. Super Awesome.

i want the last picture to be taken from hubble be exactly like the first. a deep space picture of a previously unlooked area of the sky.

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Wow, Photo #2 looks like a face, with an elephant trunk :|

Wow, Photo #2 looks like a face, with an elephant trunk :|

dog64

It's shopped, I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.

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Wow, Photo #2 looks like a face, with an elephant trunk :|

AnObscureName

Beautiful. If only our space travel wasn't so damn slow.RedNemesis42

Space is just one big orgasm-inducing canvas.super_mario_128

[QUOTE="super_mario_128"]Space is just one big orgasm-inducing canvas.LZ71

[QUOTE="RedNemesis42"]Beautiful. If only our space travel wasn't so damn slow.Rougehunter

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[QUOTE="RedNemesis42"]Beautiful. If only our space travel wasn't so damn slow.AnObscureName

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[QUOTE="RedNemesis42"]Beautiful. If only our space travel wasn't so damn slow.AnObscureName

[QUOTE="AnObscureName"]Agree, seeing pictures like these make me wish I was born farther in the future where intersteller travel is a reality.

Rougehunter

Here are some comparisions to older Hubble pictures to the newest ones using the Wide Field Camera 3(WFC3).

Before WFC3:

Using WFC3:

Before WFC3:

Using WFC3:

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Using WFC3:

The new optics produce much more clearer and sharper images, even with dust cloud formations. The new instruments can also pierce through them using infrared imagery. Later in the year, Hubble will begin work on the Near Infrared and Multi-Object Spectrometer(NICMOS) that will take picture of infrared light, which is one of the most important light wavelenths we can observe to unlock the mysteries of the known universe and beyond.