Hubble Space Telescope

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1. The first permanent astronomical observatory above the Earth's atmosphere, HST was designed to provide much more detailed views of the universe than can be obtained from the ground. Since its launch in 1990, it has served as one of the major tools by which astronomers have learned about the universe.

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The HST is routinely refurbished and repaired by astronauts, who get to it in the space shuttle.

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This enormous black hole sits in NGC 3783, a striking spiral galaxy recently photographed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

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In that same year, astronomer Robert Williams aimed the Hubble Space Telescope for 10 days at a seemingly empty patch of night sky only about 1/30th the diameter of the moon.

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Their discovery suggested the presence of an entirely new population of distant celestial sources that the Hubble Space Telescope had not been able to detect.

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The researchers conducted simultaneous ultraviolet observations with the Hubble Space Telescope and optical observations from ground-based telescopes in Japan and Korea.

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These distortions caused subtle image fuzziness, reminiscent of the Hubble Space Telescope's well-known early optical flaw that had to be corrected through astronaut spacewalks.

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