Hubble Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched April 24, 1990, from the space shuttle Discovery.
NASA called Hubble the "most significant advance in astronomy since Galileo's telescope." Hubble has given us better views of our solar system and taken us hundreds of light years away to the edge of the universe..

Hubble features a 2.4-meter (7.9 ft) mirror, and its four main instruments observe in the ultraviolet, visible, and near infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Hubble's orbit outside the distortion of Earth's atmosphere allows it to capture extremely high-resolution images with substantially lower background light than ground-based telescopes.

Cone Nebula

The Cone Nebula is a turbulent star-forming pillar of gas and dust. It's 7 light-years long, but this image taken by Hubble in 2002 shows the top 2.5 light-years (which equals 23 million round trips to the moon). Ultraviolet radiation causes the hydrogen gas to emit an eerie red glow.

Lagoon Nebula

This 2018 Hubble image shows the Lagoon Nebula, a chaotic nursery full of baby stars. At the center of this image, a young star 200,000 times brighter than our sun blasts out ultraviolet radiation.

In 2009, NASA's Great Observatories, including Hubble along with the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, combined their observational power to create this unprecedented composite image of our Milky Way galaxy's center. Infrared and X-ray light captured by the telescopes can be seen here. Hubble's contributions are in yellow, Spitzer's observations are in red and Chandra's are blue and violet.

Bubble Nebula

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