Hubble's Eye View of Comet Crash

It's not in mothballs yet. The giant space telescope will be in position to observe the Deep Impact spacecraft collide with a comet in a July 4th kaboom.

BALTIMORE -- The Hubble Space Telescope will be watching when the University of Maryland's Deep Impact space probe crashes into a comet July 4, setting off a cosmic firework that may be visible on Earth.

"We will be here and we'll be working," said Cheryl Gundy, a spokeswoman for the Space Telescope Science Institute. ...

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