Hubble Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is the most famous space observatory

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It is placed in a low Earth orbit by space shuttle Discovery in April 1990

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Hubble has sent back a huge amount of scientific data and incredibly detailed images of objects in space

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Hubble is the only telescope designed to be serviced in space

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The HST mission met with a major setback when it was launched and the first images it sent back were blurry

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The problem was finally solved three years later when astronauts added lenses to correct the focus

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Hubble has taken images of the Moon, Pluto, and almost every planet in the solar system

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It has also sent back amazing images of dust clouds where stars are dying and being born and provided images of thousands of galaxies

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