Hubble Space Telescope
space telescope · 530 km up since 1990
in orbit around Earth
A school-bus-sized telescope above the blur of the atmosphere. In 35 years it has measured the expansion of the universe and looked back to galaxies 13 billion years old.
- 2.4 m mirror · one orbit every 95 minutes
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