hubble space telescope

facts about hubble

• Cost: 1.5 Billion
• Launch Date: April 24, 1990
• Speed on orbit: 4.66 miles
• Orbit Height: 347 miles
• Launch Shuttle Site: Kennedy Space Center Florida, U.S.

WHO INVENTED THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE?

• Lyman Spitzer

when was the hubble ivented ?

• April 24, 1990

what is the purpose of the hubble ?

• expanded our understanding of star birth first list item here
• star death
• galaxy evolution
• helped move black holes from theory to fact

what has the hubble discovered ?

• shown scientist galaxies in all stages of evolution
• how galaxies form
• protoplanetary disk
• clumps of dust and gas around new stars
• gamma rays burst

Which countries participated in developing the hubble telelscope ?

• The European Space Agency (ESA)

what was the budget to constuct the tool ?

• 36 million dollars

what are the limitations ?

• HST can't observe the sun because of the intense light and heat

planets

• Hundreds of extra solar planets have been discovered beyond our solar syst
• Most have been found by ground based telescopes looking for tiny wobbles in

Jupiter's trademark Great Red Spot — a swirling storm feature larger than Earth — is shrinking. This downsizing, which is changing the shape of the spot from an oval into a circle, has been known about since the 1930s, but now these striking new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope images capture the spot at a smaller size than ever before

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered water vapour erupting from the frigid surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa, in one or more localised plumes near its south pole.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best ever image of the globular cluster Messier 15, a gathering of very old stars that orbits the centre of the Milky Way. This glittering cluster contains over 100 000 stars, and could also hide a rare type of black hole at its centre.