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David Leckrone’s scientific highlights from three decades of the Hubble Space Telescope

09 Jul 2020 Hamish Johnston
David Leckrone's Hubble science highlights

Recently, I had a fantastic conversation with David Leckrone, an astrophysicist who spent 33 years working on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Much of that interview is featured in today’s episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, where Leckrone explains what it was like when he and his colleagues realized that the telescope suffered from spherical aberration –and how they saved the mission from disaster.

Unfortunately, the interview is too long for all of it to be included in the podcast, so I have decided to present Leckrone’s scientific highlights in a standalone clip. Enjoy this insider’s view on the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact of Jupiter and other Hubble triumphs of discovery.

Leckrone is author of Life with Hubble.

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