Hubble Space Telescope is the one sent by NASA, launched into orbit by space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. Hubble orbits about 547 km above earth. It's speed is about 10 km per second. It can take pictures of anything far away. Hubble can be seen from the earth from certain parts only because of its inclined orbit. It has a length of 43.5 feet, 8 ft diameter and 11,110 kg weight and has six cameras installed.
Given below are some pictures taken by Hubble Telescope released by NASA.
This image is one of the most photogenic examples of the many turbulent stellar nurseries the NASA/ESA Hubble Telescope has observed during its 30 years life time. The portrait features the giant nebula NGC 2014 and it's neighbour NGC 2020 which together form part of a vast star forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, approximately 163,000 light years away.
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Hubble sees a 'Molten Ring'
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This NASA/ESA Hubble Telescope image of the cluster Westerland 2 and it's surroundings has been released to celebrate Hubble's 25th year in orbit and a quarter of a century of new discoveries, stunning images and outstanding science.
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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revisited one of it's most iconic and popular images: the Eagle Nebula's Pillars of Creation. This image shows the pillars as seen in visible light, capturing the multicolored glow of gas clouds, wispy tendrils of dark comic dust, and the rust coloured elephant's trunks of the Nebula's famous Pillars.
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Galaxies, galaxies everywhere - as far as the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope can see. This view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is the deepest visible-light image of the cosmos. Called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, this galaxy studded view represents a "deep" core sample of the universe, cutting across billions of light years.
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