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BACKGROUND INFORMATION: HUBBLE TRIVIA 2016

Launched in 1990, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made nearly 1.3 million observations of more than 40,000 celestial objects.

In its 26-year lifetime the telescope has made more than 142,000 trips around our planet. Hubble has racked up plenty of frequent-flier miles, about 3.5 billion.

An average of 860 gigabytes of Hubble data are added to the archive every month.

Hubble observations have produced more than 119 terabytes of data, which will be available for future generations of researchers.

Astronomers using Hubble data have published nearly 14,000 scientific papers.