April 24, 1990, all £24,000 Hubble Space Telescope When it was launched into space, it was hidden inside the Discovery Space Shuttle. Thirty-five years later, NASA says it has proven that Hubble “opened a new window into space.” planet And our own solar system.
To celebrate the anniversary milestone, NASA has released some fantastic telescope photos in decades The space between the stars.
Among them is the image of Mars, photographed 61 million miles from Earth.
“The thin water ice clouds revealed by Hubble’s unique UV ray capabilities give the red planet a chilly look,” Hubble said along with a photo on social media.
NASA, ESA, STSCI; Image Processing: Joseph Depasquale (STSCI), Alyssa Pagan (STSCI)
In a news release commemorating decades around the sun, NASA The telescope said, “a shining success story of America’s technical capabilities, indomitable scientific curiosity, and the pioneering spirit of our nation.”
“Their stunning images inspired people all over the world, and the data behind them revealed surprises about everything from early galaxies to planets in our own solar system,” said Sean Demagal Goldman, acting director of the Department of Astrophysics at NASA headquarters in Washington. “The fact that it still works today is a testament to the value of our flagship observatory and provides an important lesson for the habitable world observatory.
Another image captured by Hubble shows the NEBULA NGC 2899. This is described in the NASA Hubble account of X, “it is sculpted by radiation and stellar wind runoff from a 40,000-degree Western star in the center.”
NASA, ESA, STSCI; Image Processing: Joseph Depasquale (STSCI), Alyssa Pagan (STSCI)
Hubble has been examining around 55,000 astronomical targets in space, with over 22,000 scientific papers as of February. Besides, James Webbspace Telescopecontributes to the largest dataset of NASA astrophysical missions with over 400 terabytes of data. Among the observations it captures is the season of planets, with black hole jets moving at almost fast speeds in starry spasms. Asteroid collision And expand the supernova bubble.
One of these observations, the star-forming rosette nebula, shows a dark cloud of dusty hydrogen gas.
NASA, ESA, STSCI; Image Processing: Joseph Depasquale (STSCI), Alyssa Pagan (STSCI)
Hubble’s ability to capture the Cosmos is not only visually stunning, but also offers many scientific breakthroughs. Before the telescope was launched, telescopes that were grounded to Earth were unable to see far into space, limiting estimates of the age of the universe, Knowledge of space Generally. Hubble was able to capture deep field images showing galaxies dating back to early universes, allowing scientists to accurately measure the universe’s expansion.
Using telescopes, scientists were able to determine that ultra-large amounts of black holes are common among galaxies, and could also measure the deplanet’s atmosphere.
NASA, ESA, STSCI; Image Processing: Joseph Depasquale (STSCI), Alyssa Pagan (STSCI)