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The Hubble telescope

The Hubble telescope is a very powerfull telescope wich helps scientists to see what is really out there in space. This telescope has witnessed, the birth and death of stars, has detected new planets, massive cosmic explostions and monster black holes.

The Hubble telescope is orbiting 600km into the earths atmosphere continuingly taking photos of the universe. Everyday the Hubble telescope generates 10 gigabytes of memory wich is the same memory as a computer. The succesor to the Hubble will launch in 2013 and is called the James Web Space Telescope.