The lovable billion dollar telescope celebrated its 19th birthday on Friday. Years before you transfered megabytes of info from your bluetooth enabled phone, the Hubbel was transferring terabytes of info a year from SPACE. It has traveled more than 2.8 billion miles while circling the earth. And it is one of the most productive scientific instruments ever built: scientists have published over 7,500 scientific papers from Hubbel data. Praise science. It outlasted GeoCities by 4 years and its still going strong. Here's to another 19 years and continued enjoyment at the planetarium.
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