Thursday, January 24, 2008

Hubble Will be 90 Times More Powerful

Great news! Not only is the venerable Hubble Space Telescope, source of all those great astro-images, scheduled for life-extending maintenance during a NASA visit this August, it's also getting a pair of new instruments, the Wide-Field Camera 3 and the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, that give the scope the power to look back to less than 1,000,000 years after the Big Bang.

Here's the Space.com story.

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