Hubble Telescope Photos

Google celebrating 20th Anniversary of Hubble Telescope launched by NASA. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by a space shuttle in April 1990. The Hubble Telescope launched on 24 April 1990 at 8:33:51 AM EDT.

The telescope was named after U.S. astronomer Edwin Hubble. He is one of the largest and most versatile, and is well-known as both a vital research tool and a public relations boon for astronomy.

Massimino’s thoughts, he recalled recently over lunch in New York, flew back to his boyhood and the day his Uncle Frank couldn’t get the oil filter off his car. At one point, his father ran across the street, came back with a giant screwdriver, and punched it through the filter to get leverage to pry it off. After yanking, and cursing, “Finally he got the thing to budge,” Dr. Massimino said. “That’s what I was thinking when I was yanking on the handle on the Hubble.”

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