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Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:37:35 +0000

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On View at the Museum

Astronomy

Hubble

NASA

telescopes

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Soon after the Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990, images and data from its instruments revealed that its main mirror was optically flawed. It suffered from spherical aberration—not all portions of the mirror focused to the same point. The mirror’s shape was off by less than 1/50th the thickness of a human hair, but&#160; &#160;<a href="http://blog.nasm.si.edu/on-view-at-the-museum/repairing-hubble/">...Continue Reading</a>

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