Hubble Makes 100,000th Orbit

Nebula near the star cluster NGC 2074.
Photo: NASA, ESA and M. Livio (STScI)

In August, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope completed 100,000 orbits around Earth: 18 years of observations. To mark this milestone, Hubble focused on a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby irregular galaxy. This October's servicing mission to Hubble will extend the life of this pivotal astronomical instrument until at least 2013.

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