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The Hubble Telescope appears as a tiny silhouette during a perfectly timed solar transit captured from Puerto Rico....
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All the NASA engineers and scientists need is a star on top of the telescope in the cleanroom....
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There are billions of dollars in it for companies able to kickstart mining operations, even if such returns are still years away....
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