Hubble Space Telescope

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Hubble Space Telescope

• ASCI 511
• Melissa Ruff

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Overview

• Background
• Physical Characteristics
• Pictures

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Background

• Telescopes on Earth are distorted by atmosphere
• Also can observe infrared and ultraviolet
  emissions that dont penetrate atmosphere

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Background cont.

• Built in late 70s early 80s
• 1.5 billion
• Deployed by Discovery crew, April 1990
• Orbits every 97 min 360 miles above Earths
  surface

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Physical Characteristics

• Uses 94 inch reflecting telescope
• 43 feet long and 14 feet in diameter
• Uses solar panels and nickel-hydrogen batteries
  for power
• Observations made in visible, near-ultraviolet,
  and near-infrared
• Wide field, planetary, near-infrared,
  multi-object spectrometer, high resolution
  imaging spectrograph and an Advanced Cameras for
  survey

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Gas Pillars in the Eagle Nebula Pillars of
Creation in a Star-Forming Region
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References

• http//www.history.com/encyclopedia.do?articleId2
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• http//hubble.nasa.gov/index.php