Here's Hubble's First Image in its New Pointing Mode

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Here's Hubble's First Image in its New Pointing Mode
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The Hubble is operating in single gyro mode. That mode has some minor limitations, but as this image shows, it's still in good shape.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the galaxy NGC 1546 while in single gyro mode. Image Credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, David Thilker

This image is Hubble’s contribution to a three-telescope, multi-wavelength observing effort. The James Webb Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array are both involved. Hubble captured this image with its Wide Field Camera 3 But as this image shows, science operations are still continuing effectively, even though NASA says there are some minor limitations in the single gyro mode. In this mode, the telescope’s view of some regions of the sky is limited. The single gyro mode is part of the telescope’s design, just in case four or five of its six gyros fail.

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