MAN: We copy you down, "Eagle."
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MALE NARRATOR: What inspires you?
Is it hearing your favorite song?
Reading a new book?
Seeing a beautiful work of art?
What about pictures of the universe?
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The Hubble Space Telescope is a giant telescope
that takes some of the most beautiful pictures from space
of planets, stars, and galaxies.
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People all over the world have been inspired by the beautiful
images that Hubble has taken.
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It has answered some of our biggest curiosities
about the universe
and taken things that were in the realm of science fiction
and brought them into reality.
It's observed black holes and super nova
and other worlds orbiting other stars.
It's truly the people's telescope.
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NARRATOR: Hubble unravels the mysteries of outer space
and ignites our curiosities.
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JASON: The Hubble Space Telescope is woven into the
fabric of our culture, from music,
to art, to fashion, to poetry,
So its role in part was to take the most beautiful imagery
that had ever been seen
and share it via the internet to the world.
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NARRATOR: And for over 25 years Hubble has done just that.
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Soon it will be sharing the skies with its new successor,
the James Webb Space Telescope,
which will work alongside Hubble to peer even deeper
into our universe and will be 100 times more powerful,
continuing to inspire us all to expand our creativity
beyond what we can see right in front of us.
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