The Hubble telescope traveled to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990, on mission STS-31. There were four subsequent shuttle servicing missions, the last by STS-125 on May 13-19, 2009.
It is in a roughly circular orbit that constantly varies in the Earth ground track. The altitude is 347 miles (559 km) and it orbits the Earth once every 96 to 97 minutes. The sensitive astronomical...
To zoom VERY far in on certain objects in space (ones that people at NASA instruct it to look at) and takes high quality pictures for us to study and learn from so we can understand more about our...
Because of Hubble, we now know how big and how old the universe is. Hubble also proved the existence of Black holes and showed there are many of them. It examined the composition of a world around...