An illustration that holds a graph showing the growth of Hubble's scientific publications. The graph is color coded by publication type. Across the top of the image are covers of some of the scientific journals along with cover pages of some of the published papers.

Hubble Achieves 10,000 Published Science Papers

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has passed another milestone in its 21 years of exploration: the 10,000th refereed science paper has been published. This makes Hubble one of the most prolific astronomical endeavors in history.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Ann Feild (STScI)

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