After a month of being inoperative, NASA finally fix the Hubble Telescope on 17 July.
After almost a month of being inoperative, NASA has finally managed to restart the science instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope on 17 July.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in action after a computer anomaly suddenly shut down the 32-year-old system for a month. And in celebrating its comeback, Hubble released two spectacular new images on Monday showing the depths of the universe.
lets know about the Hubble space telescope
The Hubble space telescope has been able to provide us with a tremendous amount of knowledge about the universe as a whole, whether its success was helped in any way by not taking into account the effect of dark energy. It would have revolutionised our view of reality if it had done so. We wouldn't have known anything about dark energy before because no-one had considered that as a possibility. With this one piece of technology alone, we can better understand galaxies and solar systems than ever before in history; thanks to its unrelenting observations and stunning discoveries made over three decades since its launch in 1990.
Hubble has been sending us back amazing images, such as the one above of the Crab Nebula which showcases all of its filaments and convolutions. It shows us how stars have twisted and formed the shape we see today. It is believed that the Crab Nebula may be an exploded star about 10 million years ago.
We can now view galaxies, planets like ours such as Mars, cryogenic space probes travelling to other planets and more recently we have been able to view some of what dark energy looks like in more detail. This technology that has allowed us all of these incredible discoveries has changed our entire view on what we know about the universe.
The incredible technology that this remarkable telescope has to offer us is something that we should all take great pleasure in, for the more we learn, the more we will be able to explore and find out about what lies beyond our atmosphere.
In 1947, when telescopes began taking images of the stars, only astronomers could see these magnificent images. Today they are available for everyone to view and marvel at. If you want to see what you can see with Hubble,
visit NASA's website:
Hubble has been a remarkable achievement and it is a shame that it wasn't planned because of its importance to our understanding of the universe today and in the future.
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