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Article: Telescope Can't Equal Microscope
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 15, 1994
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On Thursday, the world learned that not only had the Hubble
Space Telescope been repaired but its capabilities now far exceed
any expectations. In one day, scientists elevated their wildest
hopes for discoveries that might be possible in their lifetimes.
Within a few years, we might be able to prove the existence of black
holes, discover the first planet around another star and even
measure the size and evolution of the universe.
Measure the size of the universe.
However, the lead story in newspapers and on TV shows all
around America was about a bruise above the knee of a figure skater.
Or, more precisely, about the arrest of the men who might be
implicated in the hit-and-run attack ...