Space ExplorationThe Hubble Space Telescope

COMPILED AND PRESENTED BY HAYDEN DAWSON

The Hubble Space Telescope was carried into orbit by the space shuttle Discovery in April 1990

It is named after the American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble.

Hubble is one of the largest space telescopes every made.

The telescope's primary mirror (2.4 m diameter) being hoisted up.

Diagram of optical telescope assembly (middle). Shuttle deploying Hubble - shown step by step (around).

1990 Hubble fully deployed in orbit sun shining through.

Hubble has been taking pictures and sending them back to earth for almost 20 years.

First images from Hubble.

April 1990

Galactic Black Hole with Optical Jet October 4, 1990

Monitoring changes on Mars December 13, 1990

A major storm on Saturn January 17, 1991

First true-color photograph of Jupiter from the Wide Field Planetary Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope October 11, 1991

Hubble Fellowship Program selected talented young astronauts to study Hubble discoveries.

January 1992

Astronomers report they have found new evidence that a black hole weighing 3 million times the mass of the Sun exists at the center of the nearby elliptical galaxy M32, based on images obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope April 1992

Hubble finds one of the smallest stars in the universe located 25 light-years away in the constellation Hercules. December 24, 1994.

Hubble's Close-Up View of a Shock Wave from

a Stellar Explosion February 20, 1995

Hubble Probes the Workings of a Stellar Hydrogen Bomb

May 22,

1995

Supernova Blast Begins Taking Shape January 14, 1997

Refurbishing Hubble February 1997

Hubble Identifies What May Be the Most Luminous Star Known

October 18, 1997

Great Balls of Fire! Hubble Sees Bright Knots Ejected From Brilliant Star November 5, 1998

Hubble reveals suspected protoplanet may really be a distant star

November 5, 1998

Magnetic Fields Weave Rings Around Stars

July 12, 2001

Servicing Mission DiscoveryDecember 1999

Servicing Mission Columbia March 2002

Oldest Known Planet Identified July 10,

2003

Four hundred years ago, sky watchers were startled by the

sudden appearance of a "new star" in the

western sky, rivaling the

brilliance of the nearby planets.

October 4, 2004

Astronauts working on Hubble

Nov 17, 2004

A Giant Hubble Mosaic of the Crab Nebula

December 1, 2005

Hubble Sees Faintest Stars in a Globular Cluster

August 17, 2006

A String of 'Cosmic Pearls' Surrounds an Exploding Star

February 22, 2007

Hubble Sees Stars and a Stripe in Celestial Fireworks

July 1, 2008

Hubble Finds Stars That 'Go Ballistic' Jan 7,

2009

The Final Servicing Mission for Hubble which should keep Hubble operational until 2014 when a new space telescope will take it’s place. March 2009