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discovery with the hubble space

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telescope our window on the universe the

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hubble space telescope was the first

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major optical telescope to be placed in

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space its launch in 1990 marked the most

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significant advance in astronomy since

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galileo's telescope

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whirling around our planet at 17

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500 miles an hour the observatory has

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taken about a half million images of 25

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000 planetary bodies made some 800 000

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studies and changed our view of the

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universe and our place within it it's

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looking at incredibly dim objects

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extremely far away and just little

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pinpricks of light and you can actually

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that these tiny supernova are going off

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you know far far far away

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and be able to extract from that this

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kind of information

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and to me that's just fascinating to

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think that something that we built could

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go and do that kind of measurement with

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an unobstructed panorama the telescope

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has supplied to astronomers around the

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world data on the most distant stars and

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galaxies as well as the planets in our

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hubble weighs 24

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500 pounds about the weight of two

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and is the size of a large school bus

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the data it generates each day would

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computer in just two weeks

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this is one of the first really big

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more people than just the folks that

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both interested and capable of using it

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space telescope science institute

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run by a private organization which is a

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collective if you will of universities

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has set up a process for soliciting

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proposals to use the instruments

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and selecting those proposals and then

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proposals get turned into useful data

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that the scientists can then process

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hubble has benefited from four servicing

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missions in its 18-year history each one

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enhancing its capabilities

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a final mission is scheduled for later

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this year when

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sts-125 crew members will install new

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instruments replace degraded systems and

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bring inactive instruments back to life

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these repairs and upgrades should keep

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the telescope functioning at least into

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2014. hubble's upgrades with the new

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instruments

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more than anything else will give us a

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tremendously increased capability for

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spectroscopy and imaging over what we

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and this is actually one of the great

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benefits of being able to put new

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instruments in an existing telescope in

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august 2008 hubble made its 100

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thousandth trip around earth having

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racked up about 2.4 billion miles

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astronomers have used findings from this

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celestial surveyor to publish nearly 7

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000 scientific papers making the hubble

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space telescope one of the most

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productive scientific instruments ever

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built hubble has had a tremendous impact

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on the way people look at the universe

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and i was talking or joking i guess a

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little bit earlier about the fact that

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when you saw

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star trek voyager or the new star trek

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enterprise movies if you looked at their

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screens in the old days of the early

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star trek they had a viewfoil with a

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light behind it that showed some stuff

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well now what they have on there are

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beautiful lcd displays

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with moving versions of hubble's images

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on them i mean that's what they show

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them flying through

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people see the universe today

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the way hubble sees it to learn more

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about the hubble mission visit