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Inside the Team That Keeps Hubble Flying

2025/3/14
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Jacob Pinter
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Morgan Van Arsdall
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Patti Boyd
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Jacob Pinter: 哈勃望远镜的发射是天文学领域一个重大问题的巅峰，它将强大的望远镜放置在地球湍流大气层之上，从而以全新的方式帮助我们观察宇宙。哈勃太空望远镜的成功运行离不开35年来无数人的努力，包括建造、发射、监控和维护等方面。哈勃太空望远镜的成功运行需要一个庞大的团队协作，包括建造、发射、监控、数据分析和太空维护等各个方面。哈勃太空望远镜仍在运行，并持续带来令人惊叹的发现。 Morgan Van Arsdall: 哈勃太空望远镜的超深场图像展示了宇宙的浩瀚和哈勃望远镜精密的指向能力。哈勃太空望远镜的运行团队负责确保望远镜的健康和安全，使其能够正常运行并进行科学观测。哈勃太空望远镜偶尔会发生一些技术故障，需要运行团队及时处理。2021年夏季，哈勃太空望远镜的科学计算机出现故障，运行团队经过长时间努力最终修复了问题。哈勃太空望远镜的科学计算机故障是一个重大问题，需要运行团队进行全面的调查和修复。我们致力于保持哈勃望远镜的稳定运行，即使出现故障也能迅速响应并解决问题。我们喜欢事情平静，我们的口号是“无聊是好事”。 Patti Boyd: 我参与了哈勃太空望远镜早期科学研究，利用高速光度计和偏振计研究了类星体和脉冲星等天体。哈勃望远镜发射初期，曾因挑战而延迟，但最终成功发射并克服了初期图像模糊的问题。哈勃太空望远镜的清晰图像彻底改变了人们对宇宙的认知，超越了地面望远镜的局限性。 Brian Welch: 哈勃太空望远镜的图像易于理解，即使没有深厚的数学背景也能感受到其魅力。哈勃太空望远镜的图像展示了星系团的结构以及引力透镜效应。哈勃太空望远镜发现了迄今为止观测到的最遥远的单个恒星——厄伦德尔星。厄伦德尔星的发现具有重要的科学价值，因为它可以帮助我们了解早期宇宙中大质量恒星的特性。哈勃太空望远镜和詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜的结合使用，可以更全面地研究遥远天体的特性。即使有了新的太空望远镜，哈勃太空望远镜仍然是一个有价值的工具，因为它具有独特的紫外线观测能力和高分辨率成像能力。哈勃太空望远镜极大地扩展了我们对宇宙历史的认知，并带来了许多意想不到的发现。 supporting_evidences Jacob Pinter: 'For the past 35 years, it has taken an incredible team of humans to get the most out of Hubble.' Jacob Pinter: 'There are the people who built the telescope and launched it...' Morgan Van Arsdall: 'I think they're really cool for two reasons...' Morgan Van Arsdall: 'Our operations team is responsible for making sure that the telescope is healthy and safe...' Morgan Van Arsdall: 'Actually, just this morning, there were some commands because one of our find guidance sensors had an issue...' Morgan Van Arsdall: 'Eventually we got to the point where all of the easy things didn't work...' Patti Boyd: 'When I got to Goddard, I was just out of graduate school and I came to work on one of the first generation instruments...' Patti Boyd: 'So I like my first memory about its launch was that it wasn't going to launch on time...' Patti Boyd: 'It wasn't really until Hubble launched that you could really start to get awed...' Brian Welch: 'But one of the wonderful things about Hubble is that anyone can look at these images...' Brian Welch: 'Yeah, so this is an image of a galaxy cluster...' Brian Welch: 'That little dot of light is the most distant star that has been observed so far...' Brian Welch: 'Yeah, so in addition to just the fact that it's very cool to be able to see something this far away...' Brian Welch: 'The Hubble telescope was instrumental in discovering the object...' Brian Welch: 'In terms of relation with the James Webb and Nancy Grace Roman telescopes...' Brian Welch: 'Just for fun, before this interview, I was looking up some of the proposals...'

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When it launched in 1990, NASA expected the Hubble Space Telescope to last for about 15 years. Thirty-five years later, Hubble is still showing us the universe as no other telescope can. Go behind the scenes with Morgan Van Arsdall, deputy operations manager for Hubble, on an audio tour of Hubble’s control center. Morgan’s team keeps Hubble operating smoothly, and when something goes wrong, they snap into action to fix it. Plus, hear how Hubble tag-teams with newer observatories—including the James Webb Space Telescope—and continues to push the frontiers of astronomy.