An eye that watches beyond

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another. - Nikola Tesla

Amidst floating primordial neighbours and eye squinting bright stars in the ever expanding mysterious space, we saw the first vision of our distant partners. It was the moment we realized that nature is a better creator than so called superior human race. We set afloat an eye to gaze at the beauty of darkness.....

Right from the days of Galileo, our understanding of the universe was only through our long hours of gaze through long optical devices. The challenges involved in observing and recording a blurry data is something to be highlighted. Over the years, several leading researchers and scientific organizations worked on making the telescopes bigger and powerful. Yet, one of the major obstruction in observation was our Earth's atmosphere....(comment below on how Earth's atmosphere was challenging for the astronomers).

With the dawn of 20th century and the inclination of people from war to science, the legendary Hubble Space Telescope was born. It all started with consistent efforts of Edwin Hubble and the fathers of Modern Rocketry, who came up with the idea of deploying a space telescope in Lower Earth Orbit, thus making it free from the obstructions of the Earth's atmosphere. There was born HUBBLE

The Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first space telescope but it is one of the largest and most versatile, well known both as a vital research tool and as a public relations boon for astronomy. The Hubble telescope is named after astronomer Edwin Hubble and is one of NASA's Great Observatories, along with the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Spitzer Space Telescope. Till date it has made about 1.4 million observations and has helped various scientific communities in deepening our understanding of astrophysics and heliophysics.

Did you Know?

\\*// Hubble does not travel to stars, planets or galaxies. It takes pictures of them as it whirls around Earth at about 17,000 mph (27,000 kph).

\\*// Hubble has no thrusters. To change angles, it uses Newton’s third law by spinning its wheels in the opposite direction. It turns at about the speed of a minute hand on a clock, taking 15 minutes to turn 90 degrees.

\\*// Hubble has peered back into the very distant past, to locations more than 13.4 billion light-years from Earth.

\\*// Hubble weighed about 24,000 pounds (10,800 kg) at launch but if returned to Earth today would weigh about 27,000 pounds (12,200 kg) — on the order of two full-grown African elephants.

\\*// It is of the length of a large school bus

Due to the limitations of technology back in those days, the hubble telescope is considered to be slightly primitive to the possibilities of the current generation. Hence it is planned to be replaced with a new installment called James Webb Telescope, several times mightier and versatile than its predecessor.

To Infinity and Beyond

For more info about Hubble, refer https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/about