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Is 797 petabytes as much as The Hubble Telescope?

It's about 6,500 times as much as The Hubble Telescope
The amount of The Hubble Telescope is about 0.120 petabytes.
(a.k.a. Hubble Space Telescope, a.k.a. HST) (2008 figures)
Between its launch in 1990 and 2008, the Hubble Space Telescope gathered 0.120 petabytes of images and other data about astronomical phenomena. Last upgraded during a service mission in 1999, the onboard computer of the Hubble Telescope has just 0.00000000190 petabytes of operating memory (RAM) — less than most smartphones.
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