What you're looking at there is one of those fantastic picture that the Hubble keeps bringing back in an absolute superabundance, this one of the Iris Nebula.  The Iris Nebula, relative to us, is really, really far.  Basically, if you stood on earth and shot a flashlight beam in the direction of the Iris Nebula, ...

So here's an interesting bit of news for you this fine morning, folks--seems that there are some folks out there who think that the Hubble telescope, among others, is contributing to making life as we know it MEANINGLESS. They're calling them "life-shrinkers", and some folks think that, by talking about the universe at large, showing us ...

Now here's a quick dose of awesome for you this morning, folks: apparently, the Hubble Telescope, that former laughingstock turned invaluable contribution to science forever, caught the LCROSS...bombing?  Landing?  What WOULD you call it, exactly? Well, anyway, the Hubble caught it, and apparently it even managed to generate a pic or two.  Sadly, we don't actually ...

It's a fitting sendoff to the Hubble, once regarded as the laughingstock of technology circles, recently spectacularly vindicated when it brought back a slew of data on the various astronomical phenomenon out there.  It will be getting its very own 3-D IMax movie, slated to be called "Hubble 3D" Hubble 3D will include history and assorted ...

Wow.  I remember when we first sent the Hubble up.  It was the laughingstock of the scientific community for its constant breakdowns and its frequency of repairs.  But now, everyone who laughed at the Hubble--me included--is eating their words with a side of crow at the pictures this sucker's been sending back. Pictures like the one ...