HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE

The Hubble space telescope:-

Since the earliest days of astronomy , astronomers have shared a common dream to see further and deeper into outer space, the Hubble telescope launched in 1990’s helped bring this dream closer to reality. It is the world most power full telescope, the earth’s atmosphere distorts and blocks sunlight from reaching our planet. 

Hence, the Hubble space telescope is positioned about 600 km’s above the earth’s surface. It has provided views of the universe which are far more superior than ground-based telescopes.

The Hubble telescope has captured some of the most breathtaking images of the universe man has ever seen. It also helped to discover the most distant galaxy in the universe. This galaxy is as far as 13 billion light years from earth. (A light year is the distance that light can travel in a year at the speed of light, which is 300,000 km per second.)

The Hubble space telescope can captured images of thousands of sparkling stars in milky way galaxy. It also captured image of Jupiter’s moon and its shadow. It also got images of whirlpool galaxy located at 31 million light years from the earth.