Hayden\'s Discovery Ranger Project

1. Space ExplorationThe Hubble Space Telescopecompiled and presented by Hayden Dawson

2. The Hubble Space Telescope was carried into orbit by the space shuttle Discovery in April 1990

3. It is named after the American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble.

4. The telescope's primary mirror (2.4 m diameter) being hoisted up. Hubble is one of the largest space telescopes every made.

5. Diagram of optical telescope assembly (middle). Shuttle deploying Hubble - shown step by step (around).

6. 1990 Hubble fully deployed in orbit sun shining through.

7. First images from Hubble. April 1990 Hubble has been taking pictures and sending them back to earth for almost 20 years.

8. Galactic Black Hole with Optical Jet October 4, 1990

9. Monitoring changes on Mars December 13, 1990

10. A major storm on Saturn January 17, 1991

11. First true-color photograph of Jupiter from the Wide Field Planetary Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope October 11, 1991

12. Hubble Fellowship Program selected talented young astronauts to study Hubble discoveries. January 1992

13. Astronomers report they have found new evidence that a black hole weighing 3 million times the mass of the Sun exists at the center of the nearby elliptical galaxy M32, based on images obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope April 1992

14. Hubble finds one of the smallest stars in the universe located 25 light-years away in the constellation Hercules. December 24, 1994.

15. Hubble's Close-Up View of a Shock Wave from a Stellar Explosion February 20, 1995

16. Hubble Probes the Workings of a Stellar Hydrogen Bomb May 22, 1995

17. Supernova Blast Begins Taking Shape January 14, 1997

18. Refurbishing Hubble February 1997

19. Hubble Identifies What May Be the Most Luminous Star Known October 18, 1997

20. Great Balls of Fire! Hubble Sees Bright Knots Ejected From Brilliant Star November 5, 1998

21. Hubble reveals suspected protoplanet may really be a distant star November 5, 1998

22. Magnetic Fields Weave Rings Around Stars July 12, 2001

23. Servicing Mission Discovery December 1999

24. Servicing Mission Columbia March 2002

25. Oldest Known Planet Identified July 10, 2003

26. Four hundred years ago, sky watchers were startled by the sudden appearance of a "new star" in the western sky, rivaling the brilliance of the nearby planets. October 4, 2004

27. Astronauts working on Hubble Nov 17, 2004

28. A Giant Hubble Mosaic of the Crab Nebula December 1, 2005

29. Hubble Sees Faintest Stars in a Globular Cluster August 17, 2006

30. A String of 'Cosmic Pearls' Surrounds an Exploding Star February 22, 2007

31. Hubble Sees Stars and a Stripe in Celestial Fireworks July 1, 2008

32. Hubble Finds Stars That 'Go Ballistic' Jan 7, 2009

33. The Final Servicing Mission for Hubble which should keep Hubble operational until 2014 when a new space telescope will take it’s place. March 2009