1. Hubble Space Telescope: Our Eyes to the Universe

2. Hubble Facts: It orbits Earth at 5 miles per second! At that speed, it could travel across the US in 10 minutes! It is about the size of a school bus. Hubble was launched in 1990. At the time, it cost $1.5 billion to put into orbit. The Hubble is powered by the sun, using 2, 25- foot solar panels. The telescope collects enough data in one week to fill 3,600 feet of books on a shelf. The James Webb Space Telescope is being constructed to replace Hubble.

3. What do you see here?

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53. Hubble’s Top Ten Most Significant Discoveries How massive stars die – in an explosion call a supernova The approximate age of the universe, 13-14 billion years old What the early universe (and early galaxies) was like Extra-solar “solar” systems – planets orbiting other stars in the universe Black holes are at the center of galaxies; its gravity helps to hold galaxies together According to

54. Hubble’s Top Ten Most Significant Discoveries The existence of gamma ray bursts, which are the most explosive, dangerous releases of energy, from the death of massive stars Quasars, the brightest celestial bodies, releasing an incredible amount of radio waves How stars are “born” – in nebulas The scars of a collision between Jupiter and comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (1994). Planetary nebula (which have nothing to do with planets) that are the gas & dust remnants of medium-sized stars, like our sun

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