Hubble Space Telescope Facts

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Hubble space telescope facts. Hubble transmits about 150 gigabits of raw science data every week. 14 feet 4 2 m. 10 fascinating facts about the hubble space telescope 1. 43 5 feet 13 2 meters weight.
Hubble space telescope is about the size of a large school bus. Aura s space telescope science institute in baltimore maryland conducts hubble science operations. It was named for a famous astronomer. 1993 2009 faint object camera foc.
A picture hubble took of earth would be completely streaked. The telescope was several decades in the making. Hubble gathers energy from the sun using two 25 foot solar panels. The hubble space telescope takes its name from edwin hubble an american.
Hubble has revealed the universe to be about 13 to 14 billion years old which was much more accurate compared to the old range of 10 to 20 billion years. In order to take images of distant faint objects hubble must be extremely steady and accurate. Hubble s early origins date back as far as 1946 more than 10 years. The nasa hubble space telescope is a project of international cooperation between nasa and esa.
Hubble space telescope facts pointing accuracy. 2009 present corrective optics space telescope axial replacement costar. It weighs 24 500 pounds. 1990 2002 faint object spectrograph fos.
Advanced camera for surveys acs. Hubble is quite the speedy telescope it goes around the world 11 times faster than a eurofighter typhoon s max altitude speed 2495km h rushing past at 28 000 km h. List of hubble instruments. The shortest exposure time on any of the hubble instruments is 0 1 seconds and in this time hubble moves almost half a mile about 700 meters.
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