(Photograph by NASA/AFP/Getty Images)From Popular Mechanics:
This week has been an active one for earthlings' quest to understand the universe. Here is the big news on five telescopes in the sky.
On what is supposed to be the last space shuttle visit ever to the Hubble Space Telescope, astronauts successfully installed a new camera.
Mission specialists John Grunsfeld and Drew Feustel installed the Wide Field Camera 3, an upgraded system that will produce larger, more detailed photos over a wide range of colors, according to NASA. The old camera, responsible for some of the most images of the cosmos since its installation in 1993, will be brought down for display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
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