HUBBLE TELESCOPE

Hubble Telescope

Hubble Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope (called Hubble Space Telescope - HST) - the telescope moving on orbit, named after the American astronomer Edwin Hubble. He was elevated to the orbit by the space shuttle Discovery during mission STS-31 on April 24, 1990. Since its launch in 1990, the telescope has become one of the most important instruments in the history of astronomy. HST is collaboration between NASA and ESA. Together with telescopes Compton, Chandra, and Spitzer is part of the Great Observatories (Benedict, G. Fritz; McArthur, Barbara E., 2005).

The idea of ??space telescopes was established in 1923. ...