Question

List some of the achievements of Hubble Space Telescope.

Answer 1

The Hubble Space Telescope has been instrumental in the following:

1. Hubble Deep field and Hubble Ultra Deep Field images reveal galaxies that are billions of light-years away.

2. Using many of the information sent by scientists have been able to accurately measure the rate at which the universe is expanding. It helps to estimate the age of the Universe.

3. Hubble’s images of planets have been crucial in studying the dynamics of the collision of a comet with Jupiter, an event believed to occur once every few centuries.

4. Hubble’s observations found that black holes are common to the centers of all galaxies.

5. The astronomers used the telescope to observe distant supernovae.