National Geographic - Renaissance

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Documenting Since 1967 Monday, May 8th, 2017

Looking into the .

Future The Hubbles

by: Kelsa Ropersmith estimated mission end is
In second grade, in 2030 to 2040! The
when your teacher told Hubble Space Telescope
you that the moon was website stated, Hubble's
covered in craters, or that four main instruments
Jupiter had four orbiting observe in the near
moons, did you ever ultraviolet, visible, and near
wonder how this was infrared spectra...Many
discovered? Most of our Hubble observations have
led to breakthroughs in
modern knowledge of
Hubble astrophysics, such as
outer space is thanks to observations.. accurately determining the
Galileo Galilei. This is an image of a rate of expansion of the
Some people say that solar system, taken by universe (HST). This
a humans eyes are the the Hubble.
space telescope would
gateway to their soul, not be possible without
much like how a telescope Galileos determination
is a gateway to the ..wanted to know
more about the sky and and astronomic studies.
universe. Renaissance
mathematician and the planets. He built the While Galileo Galilei
scientist, Galileo Galilei, .. very first working wasnt recognized for his
telescope, based off an brilliance during the
idea from another Renaissance, scientists
engineer. Although his today are influenced by
discoveries and his findings and
inventions were shunned inventions.
by the church and the
public, today his scientific
breakthroughs pushed
telescope technology to
the next level.
For 27 years, the
Hubble Telescope has
been orbiting Earth,
Galileo Galilei taking thousands of
This is a portrait of the photographs of space.
scientist who engineered Natalie Hsu, a student at
the first and most
powerful ancient DATA, stated, I would
telescope, revolutionizing have never known there are
science today. more stars than grains of
sand on the earth if it
werent for the Hubble.

Scientists today
are influenced
This image compares
Galileos original
telescope and the
modern Hubble Space
Telescope.