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New Solar Array
Photo: Astronauts attaching Hubble's new solar array
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During the first Hubble servicing mission in December 1993, astronauts installed new solar arrays (left) designed to reduce the thermal "jitters" experienced when the telescope transitioned from cold darkness into warm daylight.
Photograph courtesy NASA

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