"Space Views from the Hubble Telescope." (Part 1).
Space views from the Hubble Telescope. Floating high above the Earth´s atmosphere, the Hubble Telescope offers views of deep space like no other on the Planet. From colorful, cloudlike nebulae to Saturn´s rare storms and ethereal aurora, the images it provides are elegantly detailed, spectacular in appearance, and rich in Scientific Information.
Named after American Astronomer, Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953), who was the first to offer observational evidence to support the Theory of the Expanding Universe and other Galaxies beyond our own. The telescope´s window on the Cosmos has been a source of exciting new data, about the Origins and Destiny of our immense interstellar neighborhood.
The Hubble could peer deeper into space and further back in time than any instrument that preceded it. It soon began sending back startling images of colliding Galaxies, swirling clouds of interstellar gas, Stars being born and also dying, and Planets forming around distant suns. It turned its eye as well to the Planets and other objects in our own Solar System, snapping pictures of Giant Cyclones on Mars and huge spring storms on Uranus. Its measurements of the rate at which the Universe is expanding have provided CLUES to the Universe´s ultimate fate. Its spectrographs permit Astronomers to analyze the light from Celestial Objects and then, determine such factors as their chemical composition, temperature, radial velocity, rotational, and magnetic fields. An image intensifier can amplify incoming light, so that it is 100,000 times brighter, making it possible to observe very distant and /or faint objects.
The Hubble has earned its place as the flagship of NASA´s GREAT OBSERVATORIES.
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