Good morning.
It’s a mostly sunny Thursday for Whitewater – a high of fifty-two, west winds at 5-15 miles per hour.
Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets today at 4:30 PM.
On this day in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope begins orbiting the Earth:
The crew of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery places the Hubble Space Telescope, a long-term space-based observatory, into a low orbit around Earth.
The space telescope, conceived in the 1940s, designed in the 1970s, and built in the 1980s, was designed to give astronomers an unparalleled view of the solar system, the galaxy, and the universe. Initially, Hubble’s operators suffered a setback when a lens aberration was discovered, but a repair mission by space-walking astronauts in December 1993 successfully fixed the problem, and Hubble began sending back its first breathtaking images of the universe.
Free of atmospheric distortions, Hubble has a resolution 10 times that of ground-based observatories. About the size of a bus, the telescope is solar-powered and orbits Earth once every 97 minutes. Among its many astronomical achievements, Hubble has been used to record a comet’s collision with Jupiter, provide a direct look at the surface of Pluto, view distant galaxies, gas clouds, and black holes, and see billions of years into the universe’s past.
Hubble – Hubble’s Hubble from teresa eggers on Vimeo.
http://missionhubble.blogspot.com
Images: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Video: Sheena Callage, Tiffany Borders (STScI)
Music: Hubble – Hubble's Hubble (from Hubble Drums LP/CD Northern Spy Records 2011)
On 4.25.1996, Gov. Thompson signed Wisconsin Works into law:
1996 – W-2 (Wisconsin Works) Signed Into Law
On this date Governor Tommy Thompson signed the W-2 (Wisconsin Works) program into law, making Wisconsin the first U.S. state to replace a benefits-based welfare system with a requirement that recipients work to get aid. W-2 formed the basis for national welfare reform.[Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Tommy G. Thompson Center]
Google-a-Day has a geography question: “What NY lake is sometimes referred to as the finger that is known in humans to have opposition and apposition movements?”