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"Hubble hit by instrument failure"
Source: BBC News
One of the four instruments on board the Hubble Space Telescope has stopped working, US space agency Nasa has said. The STIS, or Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, was installed during the second Hubble servicing mission in 1997 and was designed to work for five years It was used to investigate black holes, to discover dim stars that reveal clues to the age of the Universe and study the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet. Full article: http://tinyurl.com/3vrya |
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