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Alyssa D. Level 3 “Distinguished

Alyssa D. Level 3 “Distinguished. Hubble Space Telescope. A new golden era of space exploration and discovery began on April 24, 1990 with the launch and deployment of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. A star cluster 2.2 million light-years away was discovered.

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Alyssa D. Level 3 “Distinguished

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  1. Alyssa D. Level 3 “Distinguished

  2. Hubble Space Telescope

  3. A new golden era of space exploration and discovery began on April 24, 1990 with the launch and deployment of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. A star cluster 2.2 million light-years away was discovered. The planet Uranus was seen in detail, surpassed only by interplanetary space probes. • The telescope discovered the first natural ultraviolet laser in space.

  4. The telescope is named after American Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953). He was first to show that the universe contains more star systems than our galaxy, The Milky Way. He also showed that all galaxies beyond the Milky Way are moving away from earth.

  5. 1977- Hubble Telescope project approved. 1979- Construction of the telescope begins. 1986- Launch of telescope is delayed due to the Challenger Shuttle disaster. April 24, 1990- Telescope is launched on the Discovery and deployed into orbit around the earth. May 20, 1990- The first image is received. December 5-9, 1993- Shuttle Endeavor takes astronauts to make repairs. 1997- Second service mission. 1999- Third service mission. 2002- Fourth service mission. 2005- Hubble Telescope project scheduled to end.

  6. Now, with the Hubble Space Telescope image, thousands of stars can be seen , making possible the detailed study of the star formation process in a cluster. For example, the 30 Doradus Nebula is a star-forming region in a nearby galaxy, 160,000 light-years away, known as the large Magellan Cloud.

  7. The Hubble Space Telescope is operated in orbit above the disturbing effects of the Earth’s atmosphere. It was placed in orbit by the space shuttle Discovery April 24, 1990, and was visited by the shuttle Endeavor during a planned servicing mission in December 1993.

  8. Unburdened from distortion by the atmosphere, nearly everywhere the 12.5-ton Earth orbiting observatory looks into space, new details about planets, stars, and galaxies come into crystal clear view. The Space Telescope Science Institute has released many pictures taken with the telescope.

  9. The Cone Nebula-a column of gas & dust in a star-forming region . A new picture taken by Hubble’s new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ALCS).

  10. The Hubble Space Telescope is not as big as the largest ground-based telescope, which is the 400-in. (10m) Keck Telescope on Maunakea, Hawaii. The absence of the atmosphere means that the Hubble Telescope can substantially outperform any ground-based telescope. • The Keck Telescope has 16 times more light-gathering power than the Hubble telescope.

  11. The telescope is operated by NASA in cooperation with the European Space Agency. The telescope is controlled from Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. The data collected is transmitted to the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

  12. The Hubble Space Telescope has two different instruments on board. 1. Imagers to take pictures and send back to earth. 2. Spectrographs to analyze light. Light is analyzed to determine what stars and galaxies are made of. It can measure different amounts of chemical elements. Above - Earth Shine The crescent Moon is from direct sunlight and the rest of the glow is from indirect sunlight reflecting off Earth.

  13. Galaxies

  14. The red planet , Mars A star blowing up

  15. DATA Mass-------------------11.4 tons Length----------------43 ft Diameter--------------14 ft Primary Mirror-------8 ft Secondary Mirror----1 ft Wavelength Range---110 Nanometers (UV)to 1 mm(IR) Angular Resolution--0.1 arc-sec Pointing Accuracy---0.0007 arc-sec for 24 hrs Magnitude Range----5 to 29 Orbit-------------------380 miles at 28.5d to equator Orbital Period--------94 min Planned Lifetime----15 yrs

  16. Stars

  17. The most recent servicing mission was just completed in 2002. The new ACS camera is built to last past 2005, Hubble’s end of mission. Maybe Hubble’s mission will be extended and we will see many more beautiful pictures.

  18. The End Of My Project

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