Thursday, January 29, 2009

Want to help choose where Hubble points next?

NASA has identified six interesting targets for the Hubble Space Telescope to look at, and is sponsoring a public vote here until March 1 to determine which one will be observed. As you might imagine, this is a rather large departure from how they normally determine which objects Hubble looks at, one where astronomer submit proposals where less than one-in-ten are approved for actual observations.

I'd personally vote for Arp 274 or NGC 5172, but that's just me. As we say in my hometown (Chicago), vote early and vote often! (and if you're dead, vote twice for good measure.)

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