What is the name of NASA’s most famous and versatile space telescope?

The Hubble Space Telescope is a large and very versatile telescope in space. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) launched Hubble in 1990. Hubble is as long as a large school bus. It weighs as much as two adult elephants. Hubble travels around Earth at about 5 miles per second. That is as fast as driving a car from the East Coast of the United States to the West Coast in 10 minutes. The Hubble Space Telescope makes one orbit around Earth every 95 minutes.

Hubble faces toward space. It takes pictures of planets, stars and galaxies. Hubble has seen stars being born. Hubble has seen stars die. It has seen galaxies that are trillions of miles away. Hubble also has seen comet pieces crash into the gases above Jupiter. Scientists have learned a lot about space from Hubble pictures. Hubble is probably the most famous telescope on the planet, and now, thanks to the Internet, anyone can enjoy incredible photos made with its help. As of today, the telescope could last until 2030 or 2040.