The National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) is preparing a documentary to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, which helped astronomers discover a lot of previously-unknown things about the universe. <\/p>\n
The Hubble Telescope was named after Astronomer Edwin Hubble, who used the biggest telescope at the Mt. Wilson Observatory in California in 1920s. To pay tribute to the late astronomer, NASA named the Hubble telescope after him and launched it on April 24, 1990. <\/p>\n
David Gaynes, the director of the Hubble documentary, said the telescopes wide popularity among the general public in addition to science community was a testament to its success. <\/p>\n
Speaking on the topic, Gaynes added, The achievement of Hubble is even greater than the sum of all the science and wonder the mission has generated so great its hard to articulate the feeling, though so many of us recognize it and attempt to describe it. <\/p>\n
The telescope, which was the most powerful space telescope of its time, was launched into the space using shuttle Discovery from Kennedy Space Station. It was deployed at an altitude of 345 miles in Earths orbit. <\/p>\n
Equipped a primary 2.4-meter mirror, the 13.3-meter-long Hubble Space telescope generates nearly ten terabyte of data per annum. <\/p>\n
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