NASA to make announcement Wednesday regarding Hubble Telescope – The Edwardsville Intelligencer

Shepard Price,Digital reporter

March 28, 2022

The Hubble Telescope depicted in an artist's rendering with Earth in the background

NASA will make an announcement Wednesday regarding a new observation from the Hubble Telescope the agency says is "one for the record books."

The Hubble Telescope, launched almost 32 years ago, has worked for decades to "reshape our understanding of the universe," NASA wrote in a press statement. Hubble's work stretches from exploring exoplanets to galaxies to measuring the expansion of the universe, which has won the multi-observatory team a Nobel Prize.

NASA promises that the latest result "creates an exciting area of research for Hubble's future work with NASA's newly-launched James Webb Space Telescope," which launched on Dec. 25. The Webb telescope is scheduled to begin observation in June.

Hubble is expected to remain operational at least well into the 2020's, NASA has stated. Hubble used to be serviced every few years, but that ended in 2011 when the space shuttle program was retired. The last servicing mission to Hubble was in 2009.

Shepard Price has a Master's degree in Journalism from the University of Texas and lives in St. Louis. They have been in journalism for more than four years.

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