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Did You Know… Our Universe is 13.8 Billion Years Old
Hubble established this, and it is an image-taking satellite telescope.
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Can you imagine a telescope changing the face of astronomy? Advance human understanding of the cosmos? Fix the age of the universe at 13.8 billion years? Capture the collision of two space objects? Detect oxygen in a satellite’s atmosphere? Photograph an asteroid with a tail?
It can, if it is the , the world’s most versatile image-taking satellite. Undisturbed by the earth’s atmospheric disturbances, Hubble takes detailed photographs of the Earth and space.
It orbits 515 kilometers above the earth, circling it every 95 minutes.
Hubble’s discoveries
Hubble discovered dark energy. This is a mysterious force, which leads to the accelerated expansion of the universe.
Many may have heard of massive black holes. Hubble’s images confirm that most large galaxies have massive black holes. Further, gamma-ray bursts occur when massive stars collapse into these black holes.
Hubble has spearheaded the discovery of exoplanets. These are planets like ours, except that they are outside our…
