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The 15-year old Hubble Space Telescope, the workhorse space camera that snapped 700,000 pictures of the farthest and most violent corners of the universe, is dying. If nothing is done, its batteries and altitude control gyroscopes are going to fail within the next two or three years, leaving it crippled and unable to do any research.
Today there's little hope for a fix. The Bush White House seems to be ready to pull the plug on the Hubble, saying it wants to go to Mars instead. NASA says that servicing the Hubble from the the International Space Station would be too dangerous.
No wonder that the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, which runs the telescope is appealing for clemency directly to the public. Doing what it does best, it released some stunning images of the universe. Take a look. The cosmos is frightening and awesome. Somehow, we also fit in.