Hubble Quotes
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I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.
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Looking at scientific inquiry, next paradigm will be based on very large datasets. Scientists are in the lead in handling very large datasets - Hubble telescope or Large Hadron Collider are massive datasets.
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Hubble is absolutely unique; we must have a telescope in space to complement the very large telescopes on the ground.
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The whole Hubble program has just been a fabulous testament to the NASA science community and the NASA astronaut community.
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Hubble orbits high, outside Earth's atmosphere so it can see a wide spectrum of light our atmosphere blocks.
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Hubble wasn't designed to look at objects in our solar system, but after it was launched, astronomers realized that with just a little bit of modification to the software, it could look at solar system objects.
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The Hubble images far surpassed anything taken by any telescope on Earth.
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Hubble made my career.
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I have a little piece of Hubble that someone brought back from one of the repair missions. It's on my desk, where I work. I do feel a personal connection to it. It's been part of my life for 20 years.
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We don't use Hubble to stare at Jupiter unless there's a special event or some special reason.
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Because Hubble's been up so many years now, it's actually given us a window to things like... how planets' atmospheres actually change, evolve... over time.
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When Hubble was launched, it became clear very shortly thereafter that there was a problem with the optics.The mirror was not quite the right shape. And the one program that I had really been looking forward to doing with Hubble was studying outer planets in our solar system, the planets Uranus and Neptune.
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The Hubble program has been so fantastically successful. It's more than what anyone expected.