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June 18, 2021

The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed on April 25, 1990 from the high-redundancy space shuttle Discovery. Hubble's location outside the distortions of the atmosphere gives it an unfettered view of stars, planets, and galaxies out to a distance of more than 13.4 billion light-years. Photo: NASA / Smithsonian / Lockheed Corporation

A computer glitch disabled the Hubble Space Telescope

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NASA is working to solve a problem with the Hubble Space Telescope's computer. The computer stopped working on Sunday, June 13, shortly after 16:00 p.m. (23:00 p.m. Israel time). This is already the second malfunction of the aging telescope this year
Once every 17 years, when the ground warms with the arrival of spring, the cicadas emerge from underground. Photo: Greg Hume, CC BY-SA 3.0

The cicada invasion

The cicadas live most of the time under the roots of trees, but once every 17 years they emerge underground and become adult cicadas for a few weeks. So a very dramatic and noisy courtship process begins, at the end of which we will have to wait another 17 years until we witness this amazing phenomenon again
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