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After myriad delays and budget overruns, the Hubble Space Telescope finally roared toward orbit on space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. Despite a rocky start, Hubble has in its two decades of operation revolutionized astrophysics and cosmology
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Historic telescopes through the ages, from Galileo to the 21st century
On March 19, ScientificAmerican.com sat down with Scott Altman, commander of the STS-125 mission, and Toni Myers, director of the documentary Hubble 3D, to discuss the challenges and benefits of making a film in space
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A Q&A with Hubble Space Telescope senior project scientist David Leckrone
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In an astronomy first, researchers image exoplanets orbiting two stars
Dark energy is pushing the universe apart at an ever faster rate. Astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter recounts the experimental approaches he took to make that discovery
Whether peering into deep space or checking on human activity, spacecraft and satellites from days gone by are still on the job
When a new generation of giant ground-based telescopes comes online in the next decade, human eyes will see what no one has seen before
The mammoth successor to Hubble, scheduled to launch in 2014, will look back to the first stars in the universe
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