Hubble Space Telescope or Telescope Hubble is a telescope that unravels the mysteries of the universe and finds the oldest in space. After years of delays, it was finally launched into Earth orbit on April 24, 1990, as part of a multi-billion dollar project led by NASA and the European Space Agency.
The 11-ton-long bus-sized observatory features a camera with 8 layers of focus lenses so that it can see objects of outer space such as infrared, ultraviolet light, light from solar storms and others. After more than a quarter of a century of orbiting, scientists have gained so much important information from the Hubble Telescope that helped revolutionize human understanding of the universe.
The origin of the Hubble name
The Hubble Space Telescope is named after Edwin Hubble, a famous American astronomer whose work has helped broaden the views of the scientists about galaxies in the universe. While working at the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1923, Edwin Hubble claims that Andromeda, previously considered a nebula, is actually hundreds of galaxies separated from thousands of light-years from the Milky Way
It took decades to make a Hubble Telescope
The plan for making the Hubble Telescope began in 1946, more than 10 years before NASA was founded. It was the year that Lyman Spitzer Jr.'s physicist wrote an important paper discussing the benefits of an extraterrestrial-based observatory. He argues that telescopes in orbit can see unopposed celestial bodies from Earth's atmosphere that can blur the images. Spitzer later played a role in developing Orbital Astronomical Observatories.
The launch of Telescope Hubble was delayed
In 1986, the initial launch plan of the Hubble Telescope was delayed due to the unfortunate abundance of Challenger shuttle that exploded during takeoff and killed seven NASA astronauts. The scientists used the delay to fix the sensitivity of the telescope instrument and refine the computer software on the control station on earth.
Fatal negligence
After seeing the first "snapshot" results from Hubble in 1990, para
NASA scientists are disappointed to discover that there are errors in the main focus lens being polished in the wrong way. As a result of the negligence, NASA lost $ 1.5 billion and waited until December 1993 for a repair mission by sending the Astronaut Spacewalking crew.
The Hubble Telescope captures a very good picture
In the end of 1995, the Hubble Telescope managed to deliver the first images of the farthest objects in space, the images revealed a large number of galaxies never seen before, including some of the most distant star systems in space.
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