What to watch…

hubble nasa.jpgThe Hubble Space Telescope is now working again after a fashion, following its little bit of downtime last year.

What should it look at next? You can decide.

“In 1609, Galileo turned his telescope on the night sky for the first time. Now, 400 years later, your vote will help make the momentous decision of where to point modern astronomy’s most famous telescope,” proclaims the website for Hubble’s Next Discovery — You Decide, part of International Year of Astronomy.

Your six choices, in order of their current ranking, are:

Interacting Galaxies: Arp 274

Star-Forming Region: NGC 6634

Spiral Galaxy: NGC 5172

Edge-on Galaxy: NGC 4289

Planetary Nebula: NGC 6072

Planetary Nebula: NGC 40

[Hat tip: Bad Astronomy.]

Image: NASA

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