A Brief History of the Hubble Space Telescope

Brief history of the hubble space telescope NASA
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The Clearest Eye
Away from the distortions of the Earth's atmosphere, the Hubble gets a much clearer view of space than telescopes on the ground. Each week the telescope sends back 120 gigabytes of data. Its findings have formed the basis of more than 6,000 scientific articles.

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