Space Telescope Research Paper

Hubble, The Space Telescope That Can See The Universe The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most famous telescopes ever used. It is a large telescope in space weighing aroubd 24,500 lbs. NASA launched Hubble in 1990, it was "named after Edwin P. Hubble, He was an astronomer" (Rosario). Hubble is a traveling telescope it traves around the Earth taking pictures of planets, stars, and galaxies. "It has seen stars being born and stars die, and it has seen galaxies that are trillions of miles away" (Dunbar). Furthermore, Hubble can see space better than telescopes on Earth can, it's a different kind of telescope than one would usually use, you don't look through the Hubble Telescope, it uses a high-tech camera that takes pictures then it uses radio waves to send the …show more content…
In January 2009, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope had an opportunity to record Saturn when its rings were on edge, Because the orbits of "Saturn's major satellites were lined up in the ring plane, astronomers had a chance to catch a truly amazing display in space, they were able to see the bodies crossing the face of Saturn. A lineup like this only happens about every 15-years, and leading this line up was Titan, Saturn's giant moon it is larger than the planet Mercury" (Wong). The Hubble Space Telescope was there to record it all. Furthermore, the Hubble Telescope, was designed and built so it could be updated with new equipment, and over the past 25-years, five space shuttle missions have updated the telescope with new equipment. With all this in mind one would thank it would take a lot of power to run such a big telescope, but the Hubble Telescope receives its energy from the sun through two 25-foot solar panels, that's about 2800-watts of power, that's not that much when you think about it, on average the household coffee pot uses around 2200-watts of power to