The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990. The image is from NASA.
The Hubble Space Telescope has reached a major milestone.
The observatory was launched on April 24, 1990. The Hubble telescope was deployed into the sky the following day to explore the vast universe. The space telescope reached one billion seconds in space on New Year's Day.
NASA officials said in a statement that Hubble has provided them with "groundbreaking scientific discoveries and icon images of space" for more than three decades.
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NASAHubble has passed the one-billion second mark in space. 31 years is a long time to change how we see and understand our universe. Follow all things Hubble.
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NASA and the European Space Agency are working together on the Hubble Space Telescope. Five astronauts visited Hubble during servicing missions launched by the space shuttle program. The missions repaired, upgraded and replaced systems on the telescope.
The telescope has made more than 1.5 million observations over the course of 30 years. Thousands of scientific papers have been published based on the telescope's discoveries, according to the NASA statement.
Hubble's most important observations include helping to determine the age of the universe and the rate at which it's expanding, as well as finding supermassive black holes at the center of most major galaxies.
"We can only imagine what discoveries the next one billion seconds will bring as new telescopes like the recently launched James Webb Space Telescope and the future Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope build upon Hubble's discoveries and work together with Hubble to expand our understanding of the universe," NASA officials said in the statement
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