The Photomixers are back, inspired by the Great Jupiter Impact of 2009 they reminisce in style.
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Yesterday, we started our goodbyes to Hubble's outgoing camera, WFPC2. It was literally 16 years ago that they first installed this workhorse onto the space telescope:
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