The Hubble Space Telescope launched in 1990 with a mirror so precisely ground that it was actually defective — the curve was off by about one-fiftieth the width of a human hair — producing blurry imag

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The Hubble Space Telescope launched in 1990 with a mirror so precisely ground that it was actually defective — the curve was off by about one-fiftieth the width of a human hair — producing blurry imag
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The Hubble Space Telescope was launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, in what was, at the time, the largest single scientific instrumen...

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