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The
Space Telescope Science Institute, in Baltimore,
Md., selects observing proposals, plans observations,
retrieves and archives Hubble data, and makes
the information available to the public. In this
photo you see astronomers at the Space Telescope
Science Institute anxiously awaiting results from
the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with the
planet Jupiter in July 1994.
Each
year astronomers from dozens of countries submit
proposals to the institute. An international panel
of scientists judges them on a list of criteria,
selecting the best. Typically, the institute receives
more than 1,000 proposals a year and selects about
300.
The
data from Hubble's observations are sent to Earth
by way of a NASA relay satellite. The data are
then forwarded to the institute, where they are
analyzed and stored. Observers may then study
the data at the institute or from a remote location.
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