Ever? or Lately?
Julianne over at Cosmic Variance is doing a review of scientific impact of Hubble.
Julianne knows galaxies and stuff.
She wants input on what you feel Hubble has done, big time.
Especially if it involves actual stars and other bits found in galaxies, that make up galaxies or generally are at distances not measured in gigaparsecs...
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