The Hubble Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope has opened new windows into deep space and enabled astronomers to travel visually to nearly the beginning of time.

Orbiting Earth every 97 minutes for the past 19 years, the observatory also has beamed down thousands of stellar and planetary portraits so vivid they appear three-dimensional. Iconic images have included stars in the throes of birth and death, galaxies stalking galaxies and chunks of comet slamming into Jupiter.

The spectacular scenes are merely grace notes to astronomers, who use the telescope to probe far-off specks of light for data on movement and molecules. But they've made the school-bus-sized telescope the world's best-known piece of scientific equipment. Let us pray that this magnificent telescope continues to help us see beyond our planet, Earth. For more information, Click Here.