America's Great Observatories - the Hubble, Chandra, Compton and Spitzer space telescopes - have peered into the unknown and made breakthrough discoveries about newborn stars, dark matter and the age of the universe itself. But these telescopes, whose era began in 1990, are aging, if not already dead, and there is no budget or political will to replace them.
As Nasa's Prized Telescopes Falter, Astronomers Fear Losing Their Eyes In Space
Sarah Kaplan The Washington Post, The Providence Journal
Thu, 10/18/2018 - 5:49am
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