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Science Museum Hubble

Will
the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) end up in a museum?
Probably not, as when it finally goes bust,
current
plans call for it to be
de-orbited into an ocean.
But this won't stop likenesses of the
famous
floating observatory from
appearing in science museums around the globe, sometimes paired with
amazing
pictures it has taken. Pictured
above, in a celebration of the
20th
anniversary of the launching of
Hubble, a replica of the telescope was given a picturesque setting in
the Italian
Istituto
Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
in their beautiful and historic
Palazzo
Loredan.
The scene there appears perhaps a bit
surreal
as the
deep space imager appears over a terrestrial tile floor, surrounded by
the busts of famous thinkers, and under
arches
reminiscent of
Escher.
If you're lucky, it may even be possible to find an
exhibition
of
Hubble
images near you.
And if no HST model appears there, you could always
build
your own.
Credit:
ESA,
Hubble