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10 Spectacular Hubble Space Telescope Images Never Released Before
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<blockquote data-quote="Opmmur" data-source="post: 57677" data-attributes="member: 13"><p><span style="font-size: 15px">A while back, Hubble Space Telescope invited the public to have a look at its vast science archives.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Although scientists work with the data all the time, the public don't get to see many of the incredibly beautiful images that are stored in there.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Many people took the chance to go through the amazing archives and they found thousands of hidden treasures.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">"Hubble has made over a million observations since launch, but only a small proportion are attractive images — and an even smaller number are ever actually seen by anyone outside the small groups of scientists that publish them. But the vast amount of data in the archive means that there are still many hundreds of beautiful images scattered among the valuable, but visually unattractive, scientific data that have never been enjoyed by the public.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">The response was impressive, with almost 3000 submissions. More than a thousand of these images were fully processed: a difficult and time-consuming task. We’ve already started featuring the best of these in our Hubble Picture of the Week series, " ESA said.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Producing the stunning pictures that Hubble is famous for isn't straightforward.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Unlike your typical digital camera, which automatically sets things like contrast, exposures, colour balance and so on, Hubble is not optimised to produce aesthetically pleasing pictures. It's optimised for science.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Turning these scientific images into amazing images of the cosmos is not easy, as all of these variables have to be tweaked by hand.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">That's called image processing - and it is a mixture of science and aesthetics.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Hubble is now shoing the most gorgeous pictures you entered into the Hidden Treasures image processing competition.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">The pictures you are seeing here were all found and processed by members of the public. </span></p><p> </p><p><img src="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/hubble10.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/hubble9.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/hubble8.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/hubble7.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/hubble6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/hubble5.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/hubble4.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/hubble3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/hubble2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">And the winner is:</span></p><p><img src="http://www.messagetoeagle.com/images/hubble1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Orbiting the Earth for over two decades, Hubble keeps delivering some of the most beautiful images of our wonderful Universe.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
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