A record set by the Hubble Space Telescope by reaching a billion seconds in space, which included many achievements

2022-01-12 2022-01-12T20:01:10Z
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Weather of Arabia - The famous Hubble Space Observatory was launched on April 24, 1990 on board the space shuttle Discovery, and was deployed in orbit the next day, to begin its mission to explore the vast universe, including distant galaxies, nebulae and exoplanets, and on January 1, 2022 , the space telescope has officially reached a billion seconds in space, or about 31.7 years.

 

Announcing the Hubble telescope's achievement in an official statement, NASA officials said, "For more than three decades, Hubble has provided us with groundbreaking scientific discoveries and iconic images of space."

 

 

The Hubble Space Telescope is a joint mission between NASA and the European Space Agency, and between 1993 and 2009, astronauts visited Hubble five times on service missions launched by the Space Shuttle Program. Scientific tools.

 

The telescope is located high above the Earth's atmosphere and has made more than 1.5 million observations in more than 30 years of operation. In contrast, thousands of scientific papers have been published based on the telescope's discoveries, according to a NASA statement.

 

Some of Hubble's most important observations include:

  • Help determine the age of the universe (13.8 billion years, or three times the age of the Earth) and the rate of expansion of the universe
  • Discovery of the fifth moon of Pluto
  • Supermassive black holes found at the center of most major galaxies
  • Studying the effect of gravitational lensing, which helped astronomers map the distribution of dark matter in the universe
  • Capturing some of the most amazing deep field images of the universe.

 

"We can only imagine the discoveries that the next billion seconds will bring as new telescopes like the recently launched James Webb Space Telescope and the futuristic Roman Nancy Grace Space Telescope that builds on Hubble's discoveries and works with Hubble to expand our understanding of the universe," NASA officials added in the statement.

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.
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