For 30 years and counting, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken us on a journey through the cosmos from auroras on Jupiter to some of the earliest galaxies in the universe.
"It's just given us an extraordinary window on the universe that really has been unmatched ... by ground-based telescopes, said Fred Watson, Australia's Astronomer-at-large. Since it was launched on 24 April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured hundreds of thousands of stunning images.Named after astronomer Edwin Hubble, the telescope's original mission was to peer into deep space to help resolve a long-standing debate aboutAfter an initial hiccup with its lens, which was fixed by astronauts in 1993, scientists soon realised the telescope could do much more. It's been working ever since.
"Hubble's superb imaging qualities in visible light reveal the planet's turbulent cloud belts and its Great Red Spot, a long-lived cyclone, but additional imagery in the ultraviolet spectrum shows swirls of light in its northern Arctic," Professor Watson explained. When the Hubble Space Telescope is finally retired sometime within the decade, nothing will rival its capacity to take high resolution ultraviolet images.Visible light image of the Pillars of Creation
Fantastic and so interesting! Thankyou Fred Watson and ABC
Mindblowing
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