New Word Sudoku Puzzle for Thursday, 5/20/2010

Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI; Ground Image: E. Persson (Las Campanas Observatory, Chile)/Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington
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Today is the anniversary of the first photograph released by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope—May 20, 1990. The right side of the image was taken with Hubble’s Wide Field/Planetary Camera. It is paired with a ground-based picture from a Las Campanas, Chile, observatory with a 100-inch telescope, showing the typical ground-based telescopic image.

The Hubble Space telescope is named after American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble (1889–1953). Hubble demonstrated the existence of other galaxies besides ours, the Milky Way. And he established what’s become known as Hubble’s law: the degree of redshift observed in light coming from a galaxy increases in proportion to the distance of that galaxy from the observer. This result helped establish that the universe is expanding.

I have collected Hubble Space Telescope galactic images for years! I have hundreds now. They are absolutely beautiful. I should have become an astronomer…

FLAVOR
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the words exactly once

WINCED
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the word exactly once

THUMPS
6x6 Word Sudoku Puzzle
Each row, column, 2x3 rectangle and set of circled cells contains the letters in the word exactly once
Copy circled letters to the corresponding numbered cells in the quote grid to spell out the quote

Solution first thing in the morning.

Thanks,
--Dave