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    of color. Newton was also the first to make calculus an actual thing we hated in school. Isaac Newton was a busy, busy guy. In 1668, he was the one to create a telescope that didn't use lenses. Up until that point, refracting telescopes used lenses, but they suffered from something called chromatic aberration. When a refracting telescope has lenses that refract light, there's a tendency to have problems with the colored wavelengths through the glass. It results in a failure to focus properly. The

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    you, it’s the Hubble telescope. Now you may be asking what’s the Hubble Telescope? What is a Hubble telescope? Or you might just be thinking “oh I already knew what that was”. If you know what I’m talking about this shouldn’t be too confusing for you, but if you don’t know, well now you can finally learn about what helps us discover many things in our solar system. The Hubble telescope was not made by the actual person, in fact, it was named after him because

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    organizing our curiosity.” These wise words are very accurate especially when looking at the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble Space Telescope is a telescope specifically designed for space that

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    more things. As of now, there has been tons of new discoveries all due to the Hubble Telescope. This telescope has done amazing things for astronomers. It has introduced new planets, stars, and many unknown things. The Hubble Telescope has made amazing discoveries and has many more to find. There are four main topics. The first topic will be about the astronomer Edwin Hubble. The second topic is about the telescope itself like when it was built, how, and how it works. The third topic will be about

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    Hubble, the man that the Hubble telescope was named after. The telescope made many amazing discoveries in the field of astronomy, as well as the man himself did. It was said that Edwin Hubble revolutionized the field of astrophysics. Biography.com states, “His research helped prove that the universe is expanding and he created a classification system for galaxies that has been used for several decades.” He made many contributions to science, as did the Hubble telescope, and that is why this invention

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    Hubble Space Telescope

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    Hubble Space Telescope The telescope would become the indispensable instrument for investigations of the cosmos. Bigger and better telescopes were built all over the world. Planets, stars, and nebulae which could not be seen by the naked eye were now being routinely noted and logged. Such is the case with the fantastic discoveries for which the Hubble Space Telescope has been responsible during the twentieth century. Had it not been for the creation of such a monumental piece of scientific machinery

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    Essay on Hubble Telescope

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    The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most amazing machines in orbit right now. In 1946, an astrophysicist named Dr. Lyman Spitzer proposed that a telescope in space would reveal better and clearer images that are even far from earth than any ground telescope. This idea was very extravagant because no one had yet launched a rocket into outer space. As the US space program excelled quickly over the early years, Spitzer lobbied NASA and Congress to develop a space telescope. In 1975, the European

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    “The Hubble, has given us nothing less than an ontological awakening, a forceful reckoning with what is the telescope compels the mind to contemplate space and time on a scale just shy of the infinite.” implied Ross Anderson, an engineer. With this one telescope, created by a normal astronomer, scientists and astronomers are able to see space as never seen before. They are able to make mind boggling observations that contemplate space to an infinite scale. Thousands of discoveries about space have

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    Hubble Space Telescope Essay

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    the purpose of the Hubble Space Telescope was, and is, to gather light from cosmic objects so scientists can better understand the universe around us. Up until the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope, all telescopes were Earth based and had the disadvantage of having to peer at the stars through the Earth’s atmosphere. The Earth’s atmosphere provides a large amount of distortion when viewing very far objects, like space, through a telescope. Placing a telescope in space eliminates the distortion

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    The Hubble Telescope What is one of the most amazing astronomy inventions, that has changed the way we look at space forever? This invention is the Hubble space telescope. The telescope was launched into space in 1990 and has found many amazing discoveries. If the hubble wasn’t created astronomers would not have near as good of understanding of astronomical bodies like Dark energy, we wouldn’t have found what is believed to be the most distant object ever seen in the universe with a distance

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