How the Hubble Space Telescope changed the Universe
Science, pictures, and a revolution in what we know is out there.
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9 min readJan 20, 2017
“The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.” -Edwin Hubble
The Hubble Space Telescope took its first images in 1990, but there was a problem: the primary mirror was flawed. It was ever-so-slightly the wrong shape, meaning that…
