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The Hubble Telescope Checks In With the Most Distant Planets - The New York Times
Nov 23, 2021 56 secs

The spacecraft’s farseeing eye once again sets its gaze on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

All you need is the keen eyesight of the Hubble Space Telescope for a close-up look at the candy-colored ribbons of clouds and storms on the face of the solar system’s largest planet.

Every year the Hubble is deployed to make a visual “grand tour” of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

In the northern hemisphere of Saturn, it was early autumn when Hubble took this year’s look at the ringed planet.

They were discovered in 1989 when Voyager 2 went past Neptune, but they weren’t seen again until a few years later when Hubble took up its job as cosmic sentry in the 1990s.

In the most recent Neptune portrait, the large dark spot is still there in the north.

The Hubble Space Telescope has been up there for more than 30 years, long past its planned service life, and it has been having more frequent troubles lately.

Three times this year, the telescope endured extended shutdowns because of software problems.

The Webb telescope is almost three times bigger than Hubble.

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