Hubble is awesome, and has provided some really astounding images... Hubble is like the famous model who gets all the attention at a fashion show. It takes 100's of people to design, make and plan the models 15 seconds of fame. The model is all the public sees in the magazines and the model gets most of the recognition.
Most of the scientific data used to make discovery's and even data used to add the detail to the Hubble pictures come from other telescopes both space and earth based. The Spitzer and Galex scopes do Equally AMAZING things and very few people have ever heard about them. Even earth based telescopes can take pictures close to what Hubble can, given the time and money, although nothing can really compare on earth to what Hubble can see in the UV range...
I'm gonna be sad to see Hubble burn up over the pacific when it does, but the James Webb space telescope is gonna fun to see in action, and hopefully Hubble's fame can be shared equally all the systems up there.
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