Hubble Telescope Research Paper

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When you hear about the Hubble Telescope what comes to your mind? Brilliant, huge, and genius all of these things describe the Telescope and Hubble himself. Edwin Powell Hubble once stated. What is the most well known telescope? Some may say Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, The Kepler Mission, but to others the Hubble Telescope is the most well known. The Hubble Telescope was named after one of the greatest scientist, Edwin Hubble.
Edwin Hubble was an astronomer that was born on November 20, 1889 in Marshfield, Montana. Edwin died on September 28, 1953 in San Marino, California. He was a very well known astronomer. Hubble purposed the idea of there being other galaxies other than the Milky Way and that the universe …show more content…

The telescope was launched in 1990 by NASA. Hubble is about as long as two school busses (43.5 feet) and weighs about the same as two full grown elephants (24,500 pounds). It travels at about five miles per second. The telescope is 353 miles above Earth. Hubble faces towards space to take pictures of the stars, planets, and other galaxies. The telescope has a 94.5 inch aluminum-coated glass mirror. It observes light that is infrared, visible, and ultraviolet. The Hubble Space Telescope was scheduled to launch in October of 1986. Due to the Space Shuttle Challenger exploding after just a minute into its flight on January 28, 1986 all shuttles stopped for two years. The finished parts were moved to storage. The workers changed minor parts on the delay and continued to improve the solar batteries and upgrading other systems. On April 24, 1990 the telescope launched into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. The telescope carried five different instruments. The instruments include the Wide Field/Planetary Camera, the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph, the Faint Object Camera, the Faint Object Spectrograph and the High Speed …show more content…

The telescope made its one-millionth discovery in 2011. Before the Hubble Telescope scientist predicted the age of the universe to be around 10 to 20 billion years old. Hubble gave scientists the information to have a more precise answer of 13.7 billion years old. A main reason for this great discovery was Hubble’s observations of special types of bodies called Cepheid variable stars. Cepheid variable stars have very stable patterns of brightness that make them very effective at measuring distance. Although scientist know about the existence of dark energy now, because of the Hubble telescope they recovered the existence of dark energy in the early stages of the universe up to nine billion years ago. Dark energy is believed to accelerate the expansion of our universe, but it was first believed that after the Big Bang the expansion slowed

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