You will likely recall not too long ago there was the sudden and secretive shutdown of the Sunspot Observatory in New Mexico which was followed by the temporarily shut down of the live cams of 6 more observatories, and just days ago there was the Soyuz mission launch failure, next the Hubble Telescope goes offline and now the Chandra x-ray telescope goes offline. So is there something going on? According to a news report NASA said that the Hubble Space Telescope has entered safe mode after a gyroscope failure, the agency's Chandra X-ray Observatory has now gone into a similar protective state. NASA announced the issue Friday, though it happened on Wednesday. When Chandra enters safe mode, it swaps over to hardware backup units, orients its solar panels to gather maximum sunlight and points its mirrors away from the sun. Instruments go into safe mode to protect themselves during hardware or software failures or glitches, leaving only essential survival systems operating. The space