Hubble Space Telescope is the Eye of Space that always looks into the deep space and tries to identifying new objects in the space and clicks photographs of the deep universe and distant galaxies. But apart from this Hubble has done an awesome observation that’s quite appreciable. It’s about the tracking of location of whale sharks, one of the most endangered species in present era. It’s really surprising and fascinating to hear.
Physics professor Edward J. Groth developed a pattern matching algorithm which helps to form triangles among the possible 3 stars of a galaxy’s photograph taken by Hubble. This fine trick was adopted by the conservationists to locate the whale sharks as to track them by electrical trackers was getting very difficult and time consuming enough. Whale sharks have white spots on their skin, as unique as the human fingerprints. Professor Edward J. Groth’s algorithm was used in this work to track the triangles formed by the possible 3 white spots on the sharks’ skin quite similar to the stars as mentioned above and Hubble Space Telescope was used to conduct this job. Thus, all over the world, around 80 thousands of sharks have been traced. Though Hubble Telescope is far away up above in the space and the sharks are under water, they together share a jaw-some bond and this is a common thing between the Hubble Telescope and the whale sharks.
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