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Outer Space: Hubble Telescope celebrates 25 years Traditional Cache

Hidden : 4/24/2015
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This cache is to honor the 25th Anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope! It was launched on April 24, 1990 on the Space Shuttle Discovery, and is nearly the size of a large school bus. It has brought us so much information about the universe, such as the age of the universe, which is 13 to 14 billion years old. It orbits the earth every 97 minutes, at a speed of approximately 17,000 miles per hour. 

An informal talk about the telescope is found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_space_telescope.ogg

You can see where the telescope is above the earth all the time with this tracker: http://www.n2yo.com/?s=20580

You can learn more about the Hubble Space Telescope at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope

Some images taken by the telescope can be seen from the links below.

One of Hubble's most famous images, "Pillars of Creation" http://www.dailygalaxy.com/.a/6a00d8341bf7f753ef0154377e7cb1970c-pi

Galaxy called NGC 3982, inside the constellation Ursa Major, 68 MILLION light-years away. http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01743/hubble-galaxy_1743872i.jpg

Distant galaxies https://briankoberlein.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/HUDF.jpeg

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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(letter above equals below, and vice versa)