Hubble Space Telescope commemorative series adds 5 years of service

In April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into space, performing a mission to capture all images of the universe.

NASA initially envisaged Hubble's lifespan for 15 years, but thanks to numerous repairs and upgrades, Hubble now serves people for up to 26 years and will continue for at least another five years, ie to June 30, 2021.

After the mission finally brought the shuttle to upgrade the Hubble glasses in 2009, the Hubble glasses are now better than ever. It will continue to provide us with invaluable images of the universe until the 2020s. NASA said. The Hubble Space Telescope weighs 12 tons, about the size of a bus. It flew over orbit about 610 km above the ground at an average speed of 7500 m / sec. At this rate, Hubble flew 1 round of the earth for 97 minutes, ie 15 times a day.

NASA is expected to launch the James Webb space telescope to replace Hubble in 2018. James Webb will operate in an orbit of 1.45 million kilometers from the earth to capture more images of the universe, images that humans have never known.

Please see the unique images that Hubble ever recorded.

A cluster of "fireworks" in the universe, this is actually the galaxy Kiso 5639, located 82 million light-years from Earth.This image has just been announced by NASA on June 28th.

This photo, named "Mystic Mountain", was announced on Hubble's 20th anniversary.It records the intersection of three small 3-light-sized cosmic dust clouds of the Carina Nebula.

In 1995, Hubble recorded the image of the exploding star Eta Carinae, this recorded image 150 years ago but because the star is too far away from us the human images are now visible.This explosion does not cause Eta Carinae to die, at that time it glows with 100 times the brightness of our Sun.

Photos of Hubble's 21-year-old anniversary, the galaxy has a rose.

It looks like a demon eye in the dark universe at first, but this is actually a young star, named MyCn18, in the process of being formed, in the form of a nebula and recorded by Hubble.MyCn18 is 8000 light years from Earth.

Photograph of Abell 370 galaxy, 2009.

Photographs of Jupiter recorded by Hubble in 2004 also show that Jupiter's five moons are flying around it.

Galaxy photo Messier 104 (Sombrero) recorded in 2003.