2015 Hubble space telescope Advent calendar

The eighth annual Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar.

http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/201...lendar/418197/

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Amazing isn't it how this telescope can show us something 24 million light years away and yet can't show us the 1969 moonlander platform supposedly left behind by Armstrong & co, which by comparison is an arm's length away !

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Indeed...something to ponder.

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I see you are a space buff as me. As an old astronomer use to say... " Keep looking up ! "

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Spectacular .....

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Fabulous images, shame i will never see them for real.

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That always amazed me too Realist. Questions like this are becoming harder and harder to answer with new generations and new technology. Perhaps when we’re all dead and there are no heads to roll the real truth will come out about 1969 and the Moon ‘Landings’

Fascinating pictures Solo, thanks.

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Well with the advancement in technology what that means is that the US cover up squad will be able to actually put a replica moonlander platform and rover buggy on the moon well before people start taking trips and vacations there. There are already, allegedly, pictures of the platform taken by other probes/satellites orbiting the moon.

Perhaps possible to go there in this day and age, but in 1969? Ummmm nope.

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Honestly some people are so gullible I have to mention a bridge I have for sale. What an absurd statement. Simple maths explains why the Hubble telescope cannot see the moon lander.

The lander is 400,000,000 metres away from the telescope and is 4 metres across; this gives it an angular size of (4/40000000) * 206265 = 0.002 arcseconds.

The Hubble has an angular resolution of 0.1 arcseconds. Get it now?

The reason it can see things 24 million light years away is because they are bloody big.

If man didn't get to the moon how is it that any nation on the planet is able to bounce a laser off a reflector left by Apollo 11?

Now about this bridge I have for sale - here is a picture of this hardly used bridge that I am willing to sell you at a very reasonable price.

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According to who exactly? NASA? lols