How the Hubble Space Telescope Helped the Fight Against Breast Cancer

(via Mental Floss)  The beauty of scientific research is that scientists never really know where a particular development might lead.  Take the Hubble Space Telescope. Launched in 1990, the Hubble has graced us with stunning, intimate photographs of our solar system. But it wasn’t always that way—when the telescope was launched, the first images beamed back to earth were awfully fuzzy. The image processing techniques NASA created to solve this problem not only sharpened Hubble’s photos, but also had an unexpected benefit: Making mammograms more accurate.