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London: It watched the broken pieces of a comet crash, one after another, into the clouds of Jupiter. It spotted so many galaxies that cosmologists had to double their estimates of the size of the universe. It confirmed the existence of black holes and caught stars in the act of formation. Its astonishing images have become the stuff of poster art and gallery displays. But the Hubble space telescope, which orbits the planet 580 km above the clouds and atmosphere, could soon plunge to Earth and perish in a fireball over the Pacific Ocean. NASA chiefs on Monday night confirmed that their budget increase for 2006 would not be enough to cover the cost of a repair mission to the 14-year-old instrument. Hubble revealed its astonishing capacity: it could see galaxies 13 billion light years away, at the edge of space and time. But techniques in Earth-based astronomy advanced, and British astronomers now use a telescope in Hawaii twice as powerful as Hubble. NASA began looking for ways to save money. - Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004
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