The 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