what is the hubble telescope?

Answer 1

a telescope

Answer 2

The Hubble Space Telescope is the largest, most complex, most sensitive obseratory ever deployed in space. A cost of 7.8 billion dollars. The Hubble Telescope is a Cassegrain design.

Answer 3

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a telescope in orbit around the Earth, named after astronomer Edwin Hubble. Its position outside the Earth's atmosphere provides significant advantages over ground based telescopes - images are not blurred by the atmosphere, there is no background light scattered from the atmosphere, and the Hubble can observe in ultra-violet light that is absorbed by the ozone layer. Since its launch in 1990, it has become one of the most important instruments in the history of astronomy. It has been responsible for many ground-breaking observations and has helped astronomers achieve a better understanding of many fundamental problems in astrophysics. Hubble's Ultra Deep Field is the deepest (most sensitive) astronomical optical image ever taken.

Answer 4

The Hubble Telescope is an extremely large and powerful orbiting telescope that allows astronomers views of the galaxy which they cannot obtain from Earth. It is named after Dr.Hubble who designed it.

Answer 5

it is an orbiting telescope that was going to be called the Bubble Telescope because of the way it works. ie it works buy blowing up a lens which is a inflatable bubble - as you want to look further away the lens is inflated to magnify and focus the blowup lens. It is very effective and very clear due to the clarity of the "bubble lens". ( it is inflated with Gs - which is a colorless gas that offers almost zero diffraction)


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Answer 6

It is the telescope in orbit around the earth that can collect images without the atmosphere of the earth interfering.

Answer 7

it's a space-based orbiting telescope
Here's their home web-page

http://hubble.nasa.gov/index.php