Proposals are submitted annually by scientists who wish to use these facilities, and are reviewed by the Telescope Allocation Committee.

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For more than three decades, the Hubble Space Telescope has shaped humanity’s image of the universe. Now it has orbited the Earth for the 200,000th time.

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A private spacecraft that was supposed to save NASA's sinking Swift Observatory has managed to come within nine miles of the doomed spacecraft and even snap pictures. But that is the best it can ...

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