In 2005 there were fireworks on the 4th of July -- 83 million miles away, as the Deep Impact probe hit one of these
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things no one in this generation of astronomers has dreamed of, ... nearly 
constant use between these servicing missions, Hubble has ..... on May 2, 1930, 
as it was passing within 6 million miles of Earth, the ..... July 16, 1998.