* Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope, the proposed successor for the Hubble Space Telescope

* 1990 – STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.

Shuttle mission STS-31 lifts off, carrying Hubble Space Telescope | Hubble into orbit.

Significant progress in Big Bang cosmology have been made since the late 1990s as a result of advances in telescope technology as well as the analysis of data from satellites such as COBE, the Hubble Space Telescope and WMAP.

* SPIKE, a scheduling system for earth or space based observatories and satellites, notably the Hubble Space Telescope.

NGC 4631 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Several space observatories did the same, including the Hubble Space Telescope, the ROSAT X-ray observing satellite, and significantly the Galileo spacecraft, then on its way to a rendezvous with Jupiter scheduled for 1995.

* 1993 – Space Shuttle program: STS-61 – NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

Hubble Space Telescope and MOST have also found or confirmed a few planets.

At a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in Britain, a team from University of Queensland described 40 unknown " dwarf " galaxies in this constellation ; follow-up observations with the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope revealed that ultra compact dwarfs are much smaller than previously known dwarf galaxies, about across.

* 1997 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.

Beginning in the 1990s, the Hubble Space Telescope yielded improved observations.

Reflection nebula IRAS 10082-5647 taken by Hubble Space Telescope.

Most known debris discs around other stars are fairly young, but the two images on the right, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in January 2006, are old enough ( roughly 300 million years ) to have settled into stable configurations.

* 2005 – A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons: Nix and Hydra.

This image spans about two light-years and was taken by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope in 1999.

The final result will be a musical “ history of the universe ", from the Big Bang onwards through galaxy and star formation, up until modern times, including images from the Hubble Space Telescope and rhythms derived from the cosmic background radiation, supernovae, quasars, and many other astrophysical phenomena.

The companion star was resolved by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, when it was 70 astronomical units from the primary ; results were announced in 1997.

* 2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.

Shortly before his death, Mount Palomar's giant reflector Hale Telescope was completed, and Hubble was the first astronomer to use it.

Bush, the launch of the Hubble Telescope, the savings and loan crisis, the election of Bill Clinton and the 1990s economic boom, the longest recorded expansion of GDP in the history of the United States.

The Hubble Space Telescope has a 2. 4 m ( 7 ft 10 in ) primary mirror. The correctly ground backup primary mirror built by Eastman Kodak for the Hubble space telescope ( the mirror was never coated with a reflective surface, hence its Honeycomb mirror | honeycomb support structure can be seen ).

This fact is now known as Hubble's law, though the numerical factor Hubble found relating recessional velocity and distance was off by a factor of ten, due to not knowing at the time about different types of Cepheid variables.

Edwin Powell Hubble ( November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953 ) was an American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the field of extragalactic astronomy and is generally regarded as one the most important observational cosmologists of the 20th century.

Hubble is generally mistakenly known for Lemaître's law or " Hubble's law " which was discovered by Georges Lemaître.

Hubble was born to an insurance executive, John Powell Hubble, and Virginia Lee James in Marshfield, Missouri, and moved to Wheaton, Illinois, in 1900.

Hubble also became a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity ( and in 1948 was named the Kappa Sigma " Man of the Year ").

Hubble was also a dutiful son, who despite his intense interest in astronomy since boyhood, surrendered to his father ’ s request to study law, first at the University of Chicago and later at Oxford, though he managed to take a few math and science courses.

In 1919, Hubble was offered a staff position in California by George Ellery Hale, the founder and director of the Carnegie Institution's Mount Wilson Observatory, near Pasadena, California, where he remained on the staff until his death.

On his religious views, Hubble was raised as a Christian.

He was taken care of by his wife, Grace Hubble, and continued on a modified diet and work schedule.

It was detected using the Hubble UDF image.

Wilson telescope, Edwin Hubble was able to resolve the outer parts of some spiral nebulae as collections of individual stars and identified some Cepheid variables, thus allowing him to estimate the distance to the nebulae: they were far too distant to be part of the Milky Way.

The term " The Local Group " was introduced by Edwin Hubble in Chapter VI of his book The Realm of the Nebulae ( Hubble 1936, pp. 124 – 151 ).

The primary source of verification of this expansion was provided by Edwin Hubble who demonstrated that all galaxies and distant astronomical objects were moving away from us (" Hubble's law ") as predicted by a universal expansion.

The Andromeda Galaxy, for instance, was referred to as the Andromeda Nebula before galaxies were discovered by Edwin Hubble.

Its companion Fomalhaut b was thought to be the first extrasolar planet ever detected by a visible light image, thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, but infrared observations have since retracted this claim: it is instead a spherical cloud of dust.

It was to service the Hubble Space Telescope two more times, once in 2004, and again in 2005, but no more missions were planned for it again until 2009 when, on STS-144, it would retrieve the Hubble Space Telescope from orbit and bring it back to Earth.

Hubble Space Telescope being serviced on Discovery's payload bay.

During this flight, the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) was captured, serviced, and restored to full capacity through a record five space walks by four astronauts, including Hoffman.

Massimino is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, both of which serviced the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ), including the historic final repair mission.

Smith performed three space walks as a member of the February 1997 mission, STS-82, which serviced the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ).