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Back in May, NASA astronauts visited the Hubble Space Telescope and, over the span of several days, replaced everything from the batteries and thermal blankes to the imaging hardware itself. Over the several months since, the new instruments have been tested and calibrated. NASA has now deemed them good to go, and released a series of images to back up that decision. The pictures are a nice mix: an area of star birth, the dying gasps of Eta Carinae, gravitational lensing from a galaxy cluster, and more. NASA didn't just replace ailing hardware with equivalent equipment. Anyone who follows technology knows that digital imaging equipment at all levels is improving at a breakneck pace. This apparent includes high-end, space-hardened equipment.
