Images of point sources spread out over a radius of more than one arcsecond, instead of having a point spread function (PSF) concentrated within a circle 0.1 arcsec in diameter as had been specified in the design criteria.Analysis of the flawed images showed that the cause of the problem was that the primary mirror had been ground to the wrong shape.. 
The images reveal Galaxies billions of light years away, and have generated a wealth of Scientific Papers, providing a new window on the early Universe.The non-standard object scp 06f6 was discovered by the Hubble space telescope in February 2006.. 