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How does the Hubble Space Telescope work?

How does the Hubble Space Telescope work?

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K. Tanaka

K. Tanaka

K. Tanaka
K. Tanaka, Librarian, Oklahoma

Answered Feb 01, 2021

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990. It can also be known as HST and Hubble. The telescope gained its name after Edwin Hubble, who was an astronomer. The first image from the telescope was taken 1,300 light years away.

As time has gone on, the telescope is able to take photos that are 17,000 miles away. When it comes to the size of the telescope, it is just as large as a large school bus. As far as the weight of the telescope, it can weight almost 24,500 pounds. This weight is equivalent to two male African elephants.

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E. Dixon

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Answered Jan 29, 2021

Hubble is a type of telescope known as Cassegrain reflector. Light hits the telescope’s main mirror, or primary mirror. It jumps off the primary mirror and meets a secondary mirror. The secondary directs the light through a cavity in the center of the primary mirror that precedes the telescope’s science tools.

It transmits data to a satellite in the geosynchronous tracking and data relay satellite system, then downlinks the science information to one of two 60 -foot diameter high gain microwave antennas stationed at the White Sands test depot in White Sands, New Mexico. Telescopes have assisted us in understanding gravity and other basic laws of the physical world.

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G. Horace

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G. Horace, Content Developer, Chicago

Answered Oct 31, 2018

Are you familiar with the Hubble Space Telescope? This is a type of telescope that is well-known to get light from the different objects that are found in the galaxy. This type of telescope is usually in space so that it can provide a more accurate report of the things that can be seen around us.

This type of telescope can provide clearer views as compared to what the telescopes here on earth can see. This is because the Hubble Space Telescopes are usually closer. Once there are images that are taken, these images will make use of radio waves that will be sent back to the people on earth for further studies.

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V. Barnes

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Answered May 18, 2018

The Hubble Space Telescope uses a digital camera to take pictures. It then uses radio waves to send the pictures back to Earth. Obviously it is different from the kind of telescope that you would look through with your eye. It also sees space better than a telescope on Earth can see because Hubble orbits high above the Earth.

The Earth's atmosphere prevents some of the light from reaching the Earth. Hubble takes stunningly beautiful pictures of planets, stars and galaxies. Hubble has taken pictures of stars being born, stars dying, and even comets crashing into the gases above Jupiter.

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