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The Camera That Changed the Universe

Posted by samzenpus on from the all-the-better-to-see-it-with dept.

StartsWithABang writes As the Hubble Space Telescope gets set to celebrate the 25th anniversary of opening its eyes to the Universe, it's important to realize that the first four years of operations were kind of a disaster. It wasn't until they corrected the flawed primary mirror and installed an upgraded camera — the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) — that the Universe truly came into focus. From 1993 to 2009, this workhorse camera literally changed our view of the Universe, and we're pushing even past those limits today.

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  1. Like Schrodinger's cat by jfdavis668 · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Universe's state was only determined when we observed it.