The Hubble Space Telescope Turns 25

Being the space nerd that I am, I pretty much love everything NASA brings to the table. One of the longest lasting and most impressive pieces of Hardware NASA has come out with during my lifetime is the Hubble Telescope. The Hubble telescope was launched into orbit in 1990 aboard the Space Shuttle ‘Discovery’ with the intention of capturing high resolution images and relaying them back to Earth.

While the Hubble telescope was not the first telescope to be launched into orbit, it is probably the most impressive. The Hubble Telescope measures 43ft by 14ft and has some pretty impressive equipment on board that enables it to observe in the near ultraviolet, visible and near infrared spectra.

The telescope was positioned just outside of the distortion of the Earth’s atmosphere, click here to read more.

Apr 30, 2015 4:13pm

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