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Originally posted by bermuDa
there needs to be a replacement on the way before I could support scrapping the hubble.
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Originally posted by gnort
Lets hope that NASA has some kind of replacement that can far surpass Hubble's findings
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Whoa whoa whoa. Time to set some facts straight.
There already is a replacement with significantly greater camera capabilities. The Spitzer Space telescope is superior in about 1,000 different categories over the Hubble platform. I like redundancy, but why when the old stuff has become antiquated?
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/
In any case, there already is a replacement in orbit and has been for some time now. Take a look at the photographs coming back -- spectacular!