Pictures from space better than Hubble?

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I saw it on the news but now I can't find it anywhere. Some students took pictures of the earth using a "home made Hubble" and the pictures were actually better. Does anybody know what I'm talking about? Does anybody remember who the students were?

Update:

Yeah :D It's the news about M.I.T. student! A tv station from my country compared it to Hubble.... Thank you very much.

Stargazer · Accepted Answer

I don't know if this is the same story or not but...there were some M.I.T. students who mounted a camera on a balloon and got it high enough to take photos of the Earth.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=students+take+pics+of+earth+from+balloon&fr=yfp-t-101&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8

Edit:...sorry about the search page instead of a link but my computer at work sucks...and can't handle large files.

Anonymous · Answer

a suitable analogy is why you will see a skyscraper from 40 miles away, yet no longer see a trojan horse from 40 ft. that's a rely of user-friendly geometry. at the same time as Pluto is unquestionably plenty closer than the galaxies Hubble perspectives, that's smaller with the aid of an exceptionally super value. Pluto's angular length is plenty too small for the Hubble to get a sparkling image of.

Anonymous · Answer

The HST can't photograph the Earth very well; it's just too close and bright.

Item:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5005022/Teens-capture-images-of-space-with-56-camera-and-balloon.html

They likely will face long prison sentences for this remarkable amateur scientific achievement.

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