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using balloons and rockets astronomers

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have successfully launched telescopes

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into Earth orbit above the distorting

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effects of the atmosphere to explore

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deep space nASA has had great success

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with robotic probes like Voyager that

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have observed and sent back images of

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our solar system NASA and its partner

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the European Space Agency are now on the

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verge of launching a huge optical

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observatory into orbit around the earth

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Hubble Space Telescope will see objects

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even near the edge of the known universe

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with 10 times finer detail than possible

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from the ground at the heart of the

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observatory is an 8-foot mirror ground

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to near perfection when pointed at an

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object the mirror collects light and

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sends it to six instruments various

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satellites and ground stations relay the

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instruments information to the Space

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Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore

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Maryland viewing screens will allow

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scientists to make real-time

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observations at the same time a

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tremendous amount of data will be

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generated according to dr. Eric JSON

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we're talking about a huge amount of

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information in fact we colloquially

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referred to this as drinking from a

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firehose in order to help astronomers

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plan observations the Space Telescope

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Institute has the largest star catalogue

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in the world containing 19 million

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celestial objects the catalogue was made

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by scanning over 1,400 photographic

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plates of the entire sky the plates are

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also stored in a giant database so

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astronomers can call up a region like

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the Andromeda galaxy and manipulate the

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in our lifetime Space Telescope should

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match the discoveries made since the

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beginning of astronomy we hope to see in

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the words of Galileo Galilei wondrous

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things those were the words that he used

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in 1609 we want to see star systems we

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want to see images of the planets but in

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particular space telescope is designed

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to look out into deep space to study

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deep space astrophysics to go out to