"It's that extreme clarity that gives us the feeling we've traveled out into space to see these objects," said Jon Grunsfeld, an astronaut who did repair work on Hubble during two shuttle missions.
曾兩次前往太空對哈勃望遠(yuǎn)鏡進(jìn)行維修的宇航員喬恩?格倫斯菲爾德說:“正是由于圖像超級清晰,才使我們有種親臨太空的感覺。”
"It really is our time machine."
“它堪稱我們的時間機(jī)器。”
Its successor is the James Webb Space Telescope, an infrared optimized space observatory scheduled to be deployed in 2014.
哈勃望遠(yuǎn)鏡的”接班人“將是一架詹姆斯?韋伯太空望遠(yuǎn)鏡。這架望遠(yuǎn)鏡計劃于2014年發(fā)射,是一套紅外線優(yōu)化太空觀測系統(tǒng)。