Re:Why not simulate it? (Score 1)

Huh ? at what frequency regimes ? what about X-rays ? IR ? UV ?
I think you can build much cheaper single purpose satelites for that.

saying such a large project, with published scientific results, is "just PR" with no references to back up your claim seems like slander to me. Ok, ok.. maybe I was a little harsh on the HST, but I think the fact remains that ways a really, really expensive and a lot of atronomers would rather have had that money to do other things. Then again everybody likes his own project the best... ;)