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An Ode to the Fading Eye of the Hubble Telescope

The legendary Hubble Space Telescope is set to be decommissioned in 2010. While the new telescope on the station, set to launch only a year later, will be far more advanced, many astronomy fanatics will always remember the Hubble as a source of great joy and frustration. In tribute, here are the top ten shots taken, or contributed to, by the Hubble Telescope.

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Mysterious Explosion 1,000 Times Greater than Hiroshima

On June 30, 1908, the Earth experienced an explosion 1,000 times the magnitude of the the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan (shown above). The event resulted in the flattening of 80 million trees over an area roughly the size of Washington DC, and a century later scientists and UFO enthusiasts are still debating about what caused this colossal 5-30 megaton blast.

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