Updated Hubble Telescope

I love the Hubble Telescope because it provides such interesting information and images that make me want to dream about what kind of life lives out at the edges of the Universe. I thought it very clever that the movie "Contact" based on the book by the same name and written by Carl Sagan, used a variety of images produced by the Hubble Telescope in the opening sequences of the movie.
Hubble is still hard at work providing insight into the far reaches of the Universe.

Astronaut repairmen had hardly finished tightening the last stubborn bolts on the Hubble Space Telescope last summer when astronomers set the controls on the refurbished telescope to the dim and distant past.The result was a new long-distance observing record. Astronomers announced in a series of papers over the fall and in a news conference last week that Hubble had recorded images of the earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen, blurry specks of light that burned brightly only 600 million to 800 million years after the Big Bang.The specks are clouds only one-twentieth the size of the Milky Way galaxy and only 1 percent of its mass, and seem to show the lingering effects of the first generation of stars to form in the universe in that they get bluer the farther back you go in time.

You can read more about it HERE.