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Old 09-07-2016, 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Shiraz View Post
it is still taking some interesting images.
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/...he-crab-nebula - crikey!.

The Hubble is amazing & it will be a huge loss when it is disbanded.
I just wish they would have made something much larger like the James Webb telescope to replace it
& had it in close orbit so we could maintain it for the next 50 to 100 years.
The James Webb telescope is set up for infra red & it may not even work
& even if it does it's expected lifespan is only 5 years.

When you think about it -
there are so many galaxies that even an army of a dozen Hubble's could not take closeups of all of them.
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