Two sides of a coin -The Hubble Space
May 5, 2008
As you very well know that a telescope is an instrument to view objects that are far away from us. And keeping this in mind, man who is known for his curiosity to learn more and more and that too whether there is life in the outer space, the other planets in the solar system he created the Hubble space telescope.
Now the question arises what is a Hubble space telescope?
This Hubble space telescope is a telescope that is positioned on the out side of the Earth’s surface or orbit so that it can orbit Earth or move around the Earth’s surface and capture the photographs of the objects that are seen in space no matter how small or big these objects are, which in turn helps the astronomers in their quest to know more about the outer space.
What has the Hubble space telescope really helped mankind?
Well, since the creation of the Hubble space telescope in the year 1990, there has been a significant advancement in the field of science and many a new observations have been made and many a questions have been answered after this Hubble space telescope was installed on the earth’s surface. The scientists who have made remarkable discoveries have been able to do this because of the help of the Hubble space telescope. Today what ever man knows about the outer space is because of the Hubble space telescope and furthermore mankind is indebted to the Hubble space telescope because of which scientist have been able to now understand astrophysics.
Problems that came up with the making and using the Hubble space telescope.
As you all know that there are always some problem or the other in making any thing big or small, well in the case of the Hubble space telescope this theory stands true also, because the idea to develop a space telescope was conceived way back in 1946 but then it was delayed until the year 1990 because of the shortage of the resources as well as the funds to make such a huge space telescope. Once the idea was launched in 1990 another technical problem a raised and that was the main mirror, this main mirror was not able to deliver or say capture good pictures for the study of the outer space objects. Then in the year1993 this telescope underwent some repairs. It was decided to revive the telescope so that it would continue to provide research-based information to these astro- scientists.
Then in the year 1993 the Hubble space telescope underwent some repairs. It was at this time that the telescope was revived so that it could continue to provide research about astronomy for scientists. However, there was no certainty that the Hubble space telescope would continue to work properly after it had undergone the repair work. And for this reason, even to this day NASA is still considering launching yet another repair mission. However, they cannot determine if this would be a worthwhile mission because after spending millions to dollars its success is uncertain. This is because a robotics mission is not a guarantee and a repair mission by astronauts definitely would not be a good idea.
The Future Of The Hubble Space Telescope:
The Hubble space telescope is expected to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere after 2010. Three years after this occurs, the James Webb telescope launched. However, this telescope is only able to observe infrared thus severely limiting its capabilities in comparison to the Hubble space telescope. Of course, other groundbreaking telescopes with higher resolutions have also been created. Unfortunately none of these telescopes has been as sensitive, or more sensitive than, the Hubble space telescope when it comes to discernible wavelengths.
Summary:
The Hubble space telescope has given the world a new dimension to conquer though initially it was able to provide excellent results with regards of capturing photographs of the various space objects but with the repair work that it underwent in the year 1993 there has been improvement to a great extent but then the NASA even though is considering of launching yet another repair work on this space telescope it is not sure about the success rate after the repair work as an robotic mission does not guarantee any success.
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