Hubble: So Many Discoveries, So Quickly

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Note: To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Hubble href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/space/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">Space href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/telescopes/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">Telescope, for ten days, href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/the-universe/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">Universe Today will feature highlights from two year slices of the life of the Hubble, focusing on its achievements as an astronomical observatory. Today's article looks at the period April 1996 to April 1998.

The ability of the Hubble Space Telescope to be serviced by href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/spaceflight/astronauts/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">astronauts, using a space shuttle as a platform, is one of its design features. This proved its worth very early, with the first servicing mission installing COSTAR. The second such mission – a ten day effort with Discovery as the workhorse – took place in February 1997; two new instruments were installed (and two removed), the Near href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/physics/infrared-light/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) and the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), and href="http://www.spacetelescope.org/about/history/servicing_mission_2.html">many other, smaller, upgrades and repairs made.

href="http://www.universetoday.com/2010/04/16/hubbles-20-years-now-we-are-six/">Yesterday's article featured the href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/nebulae/pillars-of-creation/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">Pillars of Creation; today's captures the beauty of href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/stars/a-stars/" class="alinks_links" title="" rel="external">a star's death./> href="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/HSTM29.jpg">src="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/HSTM29-580x380.jpg" alt="" title="" width="580" height="380" class="size-medium wp-image-62999" />/> (...)
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