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Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

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But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

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you listen to podcasts. This is John Bachelor speaking with my good friend Bob Zimmerman who keeps the website behind the black

also the author of Universe and Amir the biography of Hubble.

Hubble is aging. Happy birthday Hubble, 34 years old, however, the moving parts are wearing down,

the gyros.

Bob explains here, you go from being able to take perfect pictures to what could be the head of us.

There are other elements here, but right now Bob is telling the story of a superior robot that is as all things ending

and stays unless is Bob Zimmerman behind the back.

The Hubble just celebrated its 34th anniversary in orbit,

it was launched in 1990,

so it's been in orbit 34 years.

It's just to only be in orbit for 15 years.

So it's well past its life. And during the maintenance period, when the shuttle could go and do repairs,

they must have replaced the six gyros on Hubble four times.

So it's probably had close to, I don't know, two dozen gyros over time.

They fail because they're moving part and they move very fast and so even

though the technology has improved these things fail. So in 2009 they gave Hubble six new gyros.

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