Hubble telescope

Now the Hubble telescope is a brilliant telescope that has provided the most beautiful pictures, including the picture on the home page.  It was launched into low orbit by a space shuttle in 1990, however it was supposed to be launched in 1983 but could not find enough funding and there were some technology malfunctions. It will be in service until 2018 where the James Webb telescope will replace it.

The Hubble space telescope

The Hubble telescope has been fundamental to Astrophysics like helping Astronomers to work out the universe is expanding and more recently, dark energy. Its light spectrum goes from near Infrared to visible to near ultraviolet. During its lifetime, it has had many parts fixed, replaced and added. It had also had many small spacecrafts dock at it as well. Overall, it has cost a whopping 2.5 billion dollars to build and maintain. It is the second most expensive object to be put in space, the first being the international space station which  costs a huge amount of 150 billion dollars!

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