Science: NASA / ESA / Brian Welch (JHU) / Dan Coe (STScI)
This zoomed-in view highlights the position of a distant star - Earendel - along a ripple in space-time (dotted line) that magnifies it and makes it possible for the star to be detected over a great distance of nearly 13 billion light-years.
The images show Earendel as it was 12.9 billion years ago, only 900 million years after the Big Bang. Hubble recently discovered the most distant star known, dubbed Earendel.(See " Celebrating 30 Years" for some of Hubble's most mesmerizing images.)Įven in this year alone, Hubble has broken records while capturing stunning imagery: Hubble's observations over the years have helped scientists determine the rate of the universe's expansion, identify moons of Pluto, and shed light on exotic worlds. “Hubble is still going strong and continues to have an important and unique role to play in cutting edge astronomy research,” says Misty Bentz (Georgia State University) “It also remains popular with astronomy researchers, as the latest call for proposals in March 2022 received five times the number of proposal requests that could be accommodated!” Hubble's 2022 Highlights The Hubble Space Telescope was reborn with Servicing Mission 4 (SM4), the fifth and final servicing of the orbiting observatory. Despite some scares, including a brief computer glitch last year, Hubble’s doing just fine. Three years later, astronauts repaired the defect with "corrective lenses," named the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR) package, which they placed in the telescope during the STS-61/Servicing Mission One.įour servicing missions followed, each one deploying upgrades and new instruments, but the Atlantis STS-125 mission in 2009 would be the last: Hubble is now on its own. space shuttle Discovery, Hubble got off to a rocky start: A defective mirror wasn’t discovered until after deployment and calibration.
Hubble: From Trouble to Triumphĭeployed on April 25, 1990, from the cargo bay of the U.S. "We believe that we can keep Hubble doing the ground-breaking science it is known for through the latter part of this decade and possibly into the next," says public affairs officer Claire Andreoli (NASA Goddard). Perhaps you’ve heard: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the latest and greatest observatory in space, wowing the astronomical community with amazing images released last week.īut amid all the excitement, the Hubble Space Telescope - NASA’s orbital transformational observatory now for more than 32 years - continues its exploration and discovery. The Hubble (left) and Webb (right) images of the SMAC 0723 galaxy cluster are shown side by side.
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