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Oh, This is a bonus episode featuring remastered audio from an older episode.

Expect more stories of the people behind the missions in season 18 coming in September.

Join Patreon for an ad-free experience at September. Astronomy cast episode 88 for Monday May 12th 2008 the Hubble Space Telescope

welcome to astronomy cast our weekly facts-based journey through the

Cosmos, we help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kane. I'm the publisher of the universe today and with me is Dr.

Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University at Ritzvah.

Hey, Fraser, how are you doing?

Good, a lot happier this week.

Good.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, all the sad episodes are gone and now it's time to move on to the happy stuff.

Oh, I'm sure we'll find something else to be sad about.

Well, later, later, we won't make it happen too often.

But let's talk about the happiest place in space, which would be the Hubble Space Telescope.

So our understanding of the Cosmos has been revolutionized by the Hubble Space Telescope, the breathtaking familiar photos like the pillars of creation pale in comparison to the astounding amount of science data returned to Earth.

Hubble's getting old though, serviced several times already and due for another

mission later this year. Let's relive the Historic Observatory's amazing life so far and see what

the future holds. All right, we're going to take another break.

And we're back. You know, I just have this wonderful realization that Hubble is now of legal age and could vote

Perfect next and then what next year could drink why is in Canada? It has a few years before it's allowed to drink.

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