THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
The Hubble Space Telescope is hugely crucial in our study of the cosmos, and it is important to know what it is. I learned all the information I describe here in an article at the website of Thinkquest.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a program established and run by the European Space Agency and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Its purpose is to operate as a long-lasting observatory of space for the benefit of the study of astronomy worldwide. It was conceived of in the 1940’s, created from the 1970s to the 1980s, and operated beginning in the 1990s. NASA planned the Hubble Space Telescope as a long-term observatory based in space. NASA has planned servicing missions to the equipment in space since the beginning, and has executed these missions. The telescope itself is a 2.4 meter reflecting telescope kept in low-Earth orbit.
All scientific operations of the telescope are coordinated by the Space Telescope Science Institute on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus in Baltimore, Maryland.The scientific instruments that are connected with the telescope include three cameras, two spectrographs, and fine guidance sensors. These instruments are able to produce images of astronomical objects of exceptional quality. The Hubble Space Telescope can produce images about ten times more accurately than any telescope located on Earth.