Next generation space telescope in the works

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The Hubble Space Telescope — hovering 360 miles above the earth’s surface — changed the world of astrophysics with detailed images of faint dots of light unhindered by clouds and atmospheric distortion.

Its successor will transmit images from 1 million miles away.

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