What we see depends on what we look for, doesn’t it? And we have lots to look for in the universe, don’t we? This is especially when you have assets like the Hubble telescope resources.
Have you ever visited Cape Canaveral and explored the history of the space program? It is a great place to visit.
In this blog, we’ll discuss some interesting facts and stories on the Hubble Space Telescope. This will include some fantastic resources for you to find some more discoveries on your own.
Growing up, my family lived only 30 miles, or so south of there. As a result, we experienced most of the space history first hand.
In college, I was lucky enough to land a summer job there the summer of the Apollo 11 launch.
It was a fantastic day. And it is indeed an excellent place to visit.
Hubble Telescope resources … short historical background
The $1.5 billion Hubble space telescope rocketed to space aboard the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990.
Surprisingly it was fully ready in 1985, but the Challenger disaster pushed the schedule back four years.
It’s named after Edwin Hubble, a pioneering American astronomer who furthered our understanding of other galaxies. He demonstrated that the universe is continually expanding.
A Brief History of The Hubble Space Telescope.
About Hubble
The Hubble Space Telescope is roughly the size of a large school bus. It orbits at a speed of five miles per second, 353 miles above Earth.
At that velocity, it can cross the United States in about 10 minutes. It circles the globe in an hour and a half.
Hubble Telescope resources … why Hubble?
Away from the distortions of the Earth’s atmosphere, the Hubble gets a much clearer view of space than telescopes on the ground.
Each week the telescope sends back 120 gigabytes of data. Its findings have formed the basis of more than 6,000 scientific articles.
Hubble repair history
The Hubble’s primary mirror, nearly eight feet across. A flaw in the mirror was discovered after the Hubble was in space. Thanks to miscalibrated equipment, its glass had been ground slightly too finely at the edges.
Though the imperfection measured just one-fiftieth of the thickness of a piece of paper, it distorted the Hubble’s images. Astronauts fixed the problem in 1993.
Hubble Telescope resources … what has been learned
Each week the telescope sends back 120 gigabytes of data. Its findings have formed the basis of more than 6,000 scientific articles.
That is phenomenal, isn’t it?
Tne of the Hubble’s most prized portraits: the Hubble Deep Field, our most detailed view of the universe.
The image is composed of 342 different exposures taken over ten days and features some 1,500 different galaxies. Think about that for a moment.
Our Milky Way is one of those in which our solar system exists. And it has millions of stars. It is almost incomprehensible.
Other Hubble images have helped scientists better estimate the age of the universe (13.75 billion years old) and shed light on a mysterious antigravity force called “dark energy.”
Hubble Telescope resources … some of the most famous images
Among the mesmerizing images, the Hubble has captured these “elephant trunks,” towering columns of interstellar gas photographed in the Serpens constellation, 6,500 light-years from Earth.
Here is a collection of amazing photos taken by the Hubble Telescope.
Snapshots From Hubble is a slideshow from The New York Times.
A View of the Edge of The Universe is a CNN slideshow of images taken by the Hubble.
Interesting Hubble videos
2009: A Hubble Space Odyssey is a video from CBS News.
The Boston Globe has a video of the first spacewalk done to make repairs to the Hubble.
Hubble Telescope resources … final ending
The Hubble is expected to go out of service sometime around 2018, 28 years after its launch. By then a replacement, the James Webb Space Telescope, is scheduled to be in place.
Once its life is over the Hubble may be retrieved from space, or guided to a final splashdown in the ocean.
Hubble Telescope resources … after Hubble
The James Webb telescope will replace the Hubble when it is launched in 2018. It boasts new infrared capabilities, is much stronger and can perform many functions the Hubble telescope is not capable of.
By using this infrared technology, along with mirrors and radio signals, scientists will be able to see through dust and clouds in space that currently block the view of Hubble.
The new space telescope can also spread the light out into individual colors, making it possible to see single atoms and molecules to learn more about their chemical makeup.
At the moment, the Hubble space telescope only allows astronomers to view a tiny portion of the infrared spectrum.
The James Webb Space Telescope, named after the second administrator of NASA, will travel 1.5 million kilometers from the Earth’s atmosphere. Hubble, on the other hand, floats in low Earth orbit.
Additionally, the new telescope boasts a larger mirror, nearly six and a quarter times bigger, which makes it possible for it to see farther away into space.
Many new design factors make the James Webb space telescope nearly one hundred times stronger than Hubble.
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