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March 6, 2014

Despite its initial myopia, the Hubble Space Telescope

is one of the most glorious instruments ever made, a genuinely new window on the universe.

Even so, when it first began to send back images of the cosmos in the mid-1990s, Nature was plagued with content-free submissions reporting the first ‘Hubble image’ of this or that astrophysical object. Authors were often affronted to hear that the journal wanted, not the latest pretty picture, but some insight into the process it was depicting. -– Philip Ball – Aeon

Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 6, 2014 9:50 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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