Arrive Hubble telescope To another major milestone this month, NASA revealed that its iconic 31-year-old telescope had spent a billion seconds in space, and the space telescope was deployed from the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Discovery on April 25, 1990, when it was 340 miles above the Earth’s surface.
According to the British newspaper, “Daily Mail”, the Hubble telescope produced some of the most famous astronomical imaging images ever, and Hubble also presented scientific discoveries Pioneering, including setting the age of the universe at 13.8 billion years.
Hubble has seen five missions serving astronauts to replace and repair components, and more than 1.5 million scientific observations, and NASA wrote to celebrate this milestone: “We can only imagine the discoveries that will come in the next billion seconds.”
The Hubble telescope is also expected to continue operating for several more years, despite a number of recent concerns, which have led to all or part of the observatory being out of service.
NASA wrote that it would wait for the reveal of the next generation of space observatories, including the recent James Webb launch.
Hubble was a joint project of NASA and the European Space Agency (THAT), where it witnessed regular visits by astronauts between 1993 and 2009.
Observations using the telescope have also led to thousands of scientific papers, including new discoveries regarding the origins of the universe.
Other discoveries include the expansion rate of the universe, the discovery of a fifth moon around Pluto, and the discovery of supermassive black holes at the core of most major galaxies.
The telescope orbits the Earth at regarding 17,000 miles per hour (27,300 kilometers per hour) in low Earth orbit at an altitude of regarding 340 miles, just above the International Space Station (ISS).
The telescope was also named following the famous astronomer Edwin Hubble, who was born in Missouri in 1889 and discovered that the universe is expanding, in addition to its rate of expansion, and Hubble recently celebrated the 31st anniversary of its founding in space, which cost 4.7 billion dollars (£ 3.4 billion) to build. It contains a 7-foot-10-inch mirror that can detect ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared rays.
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