Hubble Telescope Birthday 2004. Get the latest updates on nasa missions, watch nasa tv live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. Since the hubble telescope was first launched in 1990, it has made more than 1.4 million observations of various stars, planets and galaxies littering our universe.
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Launched on april 24, 1990, aboard the space shuttle discovery, hubble is currently located about 340 miles (547 km) above earth’s surface. On my mom’s birthday in 2002, the telescope was staring at the halo around the nearby. The telescope's acs camera, the size of a phone booth, captured ancient photons of light that began traversing the universe even before earth existed.
It was one of the first times an exoplanet had ever.
Nasa.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from america's space agency. The cat’s eye nebula (ngc 6543), as captured by the hubble space telescope in 2004. Supernovae like this one can be used as cosmic tape measures, allowing astronomers to calculate the distance to their galaxies. 24, 2003 and continued through jan.
