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May 20, 1990: Hubble Opens Its Eye ... and Blinks

Posted May 20, 2010 11:24 AM

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1990: The Hubble Space Telescope sends its first image back to Earth. The new telescope's imaging prowess clearly exceeded that of the best ground-based telescopes, as shown in the image above of stars in the Carina cluster. But after a few weeks, scientists began to realize something was amiss.

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05/20/2010 12:11 PM

Oh, Hubble. The poor nearsighted child that everyone laughed at.

But then you got glasses. And with them you showed us great beauty we never thought possible! You taught us that we were the ones who lacked sight.

How beloved you have become.
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