How much gas is left for Hubble's discoveries? 🧐
Last year, there were serious concerns the Hubble telescope would never work again following a series of technical issues leading to a halt in operations.
Now, the iconic orbital observatory has captured a fascinating new image of a galaxy with an active black hole and massive dark dust tendrils, aThe spiral galaxy, called NGC 7172, is located roughly 110 million light-years away from Earth in the Piscis Austrinus constellation. The image is a combination of two different captures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3.
When this dust and gas fall into the galaxy's supermassive black hole, it emits incredibly bright rays of light. The fact that this light is largely obscured gives an idea of the extent of the dark dust surrounding the universe.Hubble has suffered several near-death moments in recent years, and it is nearing the end of its lifetime.
In June last year, for example, a problem with Hubble's payload computer caused it to switch to safe mode, leading to a roughly month-long outage as mission control at NASA investigated and
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