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Student Essay on The History of the Hubble Telescope

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The History of the Hubble Telescope

Summary:   The story of how the Hubble Telescope came to be. The telescope that orbits the Earth has helped advance studies of the planets and universe.


The Hubble telescope is a telescope that is located in outer space. It has helped us advance our studies of the planets and galaxies. The Hubble telescope is the only reason that we can see these planets and galaxies now because of the Hubble telescope. We know a lot of things about the solar system.

The man behind Hubble was Lyman Spitzer. The concept began in 1942 and the design process started in 1962. It was supposed to launch in 1979 but was delayed because of budget problems. Eventually it was launched on April 24th, 1990, 54 years after they had expected. There were many objectives of the Hubble telescope, to investigate the composition, physical characteristics, and dynamics of celestial bodies, to examine the formation, structure, and evolution of stars and galaxies, study history and evolution of.....

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