Trouble with Hubble: 1. A window on the universe

Trouble with Hubble: 1. A window on the unive...

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Trouble with Hubble: 2. The eye opens

High above the Earth, the crew of Space Shuttle Discovery race against the clock to lift the Hubble Space Telescope from its storage bay and give it a new home in orbit. They have just eight hours to release the telescope and deploy its solar panels, giving Hubble the power it ne ...  Show more

Trouble with Hubble: 3. National disgrace

A devastating discovery is turning the crown jewel of astronomy into an embarrassing failure. Hubble isn’t seeing the universe as it should. Why are the pictures blurry? Nasa’s revolutionary telescope is in orbit and the space agency should be celebrating. Instead, it launches an ...  Show more

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