Hubble Space Telescope Facts
Hubble Space Telescope Facts
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| Interesting Hubble Space Telescope Facts: |
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| The Hubble Space Telescope weighs 24,250 pounds. |
| The Hubble Space Telescope is scheduled to retire in 2014. |
| The Hubble Space Telescope is 43 feet long. |
| The Hubble Space Telescope is considered a reflecting telescope because it uses mirrors to capture images. |
| The replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, is scheduled to launch sometime in 2018. |
| The Hubble Space Telescope is traveling at about 5 miles per second. |
| The Sun supplies the Hubble Space Telescope with energy through its solar panels. |
| The Hubble Space Telescope is named after Dr. Hubble who provided evidence for the occurrence of the Big Bang Theory. |
| The Hubble Space Telescope orbits about 353 miles above Earth. |
| The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit by the Space Shuttle. |
| The storage capacity of the Hubble Space Telescope is about the same as 20 car batteries. |
| The Hubble Space Telescopes captures and transmits colorful images of objects in space such as dying stars and other galaxies. |
| It took 50 years for the Hubble Space Telescope to be developed, built, and launched after the idea was first introduced. |
| Although the Hubble Space Telescope can observe many things in space, it cannot observe the Sun or Mercury. |
| The Hubble Space Telescope is almost the same size as a school bus. |
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