Hubble Space Telescope The Hubble Space Telescope is the product of a joint effort between National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA). It was delivered into low-Earth orbit by the space shuttle Discovery on April 25th, 1990. The planning and operation of the HST is done for NASA by the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). The HST’s cameras provide NASA with high resolution photographs of distant celestial objects, its spectrograph …showed first 75 words of 515 total…

…showed last 75 words of 515 total…stars in the universe were formed when the universe was less than half of its current age. The Hubble Deep Field has been used to estimate the number of galaxies in the universe, and with further examination, it will be extremely helpfull in estimating the size of the universe. Even after all that the Hubble Space Telescope has discovered, it is just the tip of the iceberg. Works Cited: hubble.stsci.edu www.nasa.gov