OtterKnow Kids EncyclopediaThe Hubble Space Telescope is a famous telescope that floats in space, orbiting around Earth! It has been taking clear, colorful pictures of the universe since 1990. Hubble has shown us things we never could have seen from the ground.
Hubble orbits about 340 miles above Earth, high above the clouds and air that can make things look blurry. It uses a big mirror to collect light from faraway stars, galaxies, and nebulas. Then it takes beautiful, clear pictures and sends them back to scientists on Earth. Astronauts visited Hubble five times on the Space Shuttle to fix and upgrade it!
- Hubble has taken over one million pictures since it was launched.
- It can see galaxies that are billions of light-years away.
- When Hubble was first launched, its mirror had a tiny flaw, so astronauts had to fly up and fix it like a giant repair job in space!
