I'm going to miss you when you go.

NASA is celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope's 25th anniversary with a variety of events highlighting its groundbreaking achievements and scientific contributions with activities running April 20-26.

Hubble, the world’s first space telescope, was launched on April 24, 1990 aboard the space shuttle Discovery. In its quarter-century in orbit, the observatory has transformed our understanding of our solar system and beyond, and helped us find our place among the stars.

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Out of this world!

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Happy Anniversary Hubble. :-)



A glittering tapestry of young stars flares to life in these detailed close-up NASA Hubble Space Telescope photos of star cluster Westerlund 2 that are being released in celebration of Hubble's 25 years of exploring the universe since its launch on April 24, 1990.
Credits: NASA/ESA

A new window to the universe opened for humanity on the morning of April 24, 1990, when NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope was lofted into space, riding atop a Promethean flame from the space shuttle Discovery.

"Even the most optimistic person to whom you could have spoken back in 1990 couldn’t have predicted the degree to which Hubble would re-write our astrophysics and planetary science textbooks," said Charlie Bolden, NASA administrator and pilot of the mission that brought Hubble into orbit. "A quarter century later, Hubble has fundamentally changed human understanding of the universe and our place in it."

Hubble’s scientific payoff has been immeasurable; it has shown us the universe as we never imagined.

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-s-hubble-space-telescope-celebrates-25-years-of-unveiling-the-universe

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I know all the arguments about HST only being a tool and that when it no longer can do it's job it will be time to plunge it into the atmosphere and burn it up, but I can't help but feel it deserves to be preserved somehow.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

I know all the arguments about HST only being a tool and that when it no longer can do it's job it will be time to plunge it into the atmosphere and burn it up, but I can't help but feel it deserves to be preserved somehow.

+100

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Happy B-Day dear Hubble!

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Happy 25th birthday, Hubble!
According to Mad Max it cost $30/American