Hubble Space Telescope

A community portal about Hubble Space Telescope with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Hubble Space Telescope is a telescope in orbit around the Earth, named after astronomer Edwin Hubble for his discovery of galaxies outside the Milky Way and his creation of Hubble's Law, which calculates the rate at which the universe is expanding. Its position outside the Earth's atmosphere allows it to take sharp optical images of very faint objects, and since its launch in 1990, it has become one of the most important instruments in the history of astronomy. It has been responsible for many ground-breaking observations and has helped astronomers achieve a better understanding of many fundamental problems in astrophysics. Hubble's Ultra Deep Field is the deepest astronomical optical image ever taken.

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Last Hubble Mission Approaching

Written by nlhouser on

From: www.amarsodyssey.com

Hubble will be retrieved from its orbit by the Shuttle’s robotic arm and placed in the payload bay for servicing. CREDIT: NASA

Hubble will be retrieved from its orbit by the Shuttle’s robotic arm and placed in the payload bay for servicing.

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“The repair of STIS, and of ACS in particular, involves techniques that the astronauts have never done before on Hubble, possibly never before anywhere,” explained Dr. Dave Leckrone, Senior Project Scientist for Hubble Space Telescope. “That is, to open up an instrument that was not designed to be opened up and actually pull out electronic printed circuit boards and replace them with new boards.”

Chosen for the final mission to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are seven astronauts:

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