Sometime in the next decade the Very Large Telescope project will be completed and we’ll all be seeing things we’ve never dreamed we would see in our lifetime. The 16 meter VLT will put Hubble to shame.
Seems that everything we’ve considered to be normal for a solar system is unusual and all the unusual things are normal.
That is why I think the Hubble servicing mission is a waste of time.
Should We Repair Hubble?
Popular Mechanics | May 2007 | Thomas D. Jones
Posted on 04/03/2007 10:49:37 PM EDT by KevinDavis [ahem]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1811616/posts
[snip] If the mission succeeds, Hubble should be in peak observing condition until its replacement, the James Webb Space Telescope, is launched in 2013... Some argue that repairing Hubble is pointless, since ground-based observatories have overtaken its capabilities. But terrestrial telescopes fall short of HST’s resolution by a factor of 10 or more. [end]
I thought the VLT was going to be completed last year.
Or am I missing something?