Big milestone for NASA telescope

NASA, the US space agency, is celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s launch into orbit. As one of the largest and most powerful telescopes ever sent into space, the Hubble has provided scientists with a more complete understanding of the universe. What is the Hubble? Named after US astronomer Edwin Hubble, the telescope was launched on board the space shuttle Discovery from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 24, 1990. The telescope is about the size of a school bus and weighs about 27,000 pounds. The Hubble’s two main camera systems capture light, including infrared and ultraviolet light, which the human eye can’t see. Two solar panels draw energy from the Sun to power the Hubble, which orbits about 320 miles away from Earth and…

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