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- In
its 10 years of surveying the heavens, NASA's Hubble Space
Telescope has made 330,000 exposures and probed 14,000 celestial
targets.
- Hubble
has whirled around Earth 58,400 times, racking up 1.5 billion
miles. That's like making 8 round trips to the Sun.
- The
orbiting observatory's observations have amounted to 3.5
terabytes of data.
- Each
day the telescope generates enough data - 3 to 5 gigabytes
— to fill a typical home computer.
- Hubble's
archive delivers between 10 and 15 gigabytes of data a day
to astronomers all over the world.
- Astronomers
have published 2,651 scientific papers on Hubble results.
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