Hubble Space Telescope

19902.4 m mirrorNASA/ESA

LocationSpace

Year1990

Size2.4 m mirror

OperatorNASA/ESA

About Hubble Space Telescope

Orbiting 547 km above Earth. Has made over 1.5 million observations. Deep Field images revealed 10,000 galaxies in a patch of sky the size of a pinhead at arms length. Serviced 5 times by Space Shuttle crews. Named after Edwin Hubble who proved the universe is expanding.

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