The Creator of The Hubble Telescope Edwin Hubble

November 20, 1889, in Marshfield, Missouri. His parents were Jhon and Virginia Hubble and he had seven siblings. In 1898 when Edwin was ten years old, their whole family moved to Chicago, Illinois. In Chicago, Edwin attended high school and excelled at sports, his best was track and field, he even broke the Illinois state high jump record. In 1906 Hubble received a scholarship to the University of Chicago. Hubble graduated in 1910. He spent three years at the University of Oxford and was awarded a bachelors degree in jurisprudence, a subject he had taken because his father wanted him too. But After his father’s passed away in 1913, he was able to pursue his dream of becoming an astronomer.

Hubble’s scientific invention and discovery is quite inventive and plays a big roll in modern-day astronomy. He as well invented, if you didn’t know the Hubble space telescope, which is a telescope that they launched into space in 1990. The telescope was named after astronomer Edwin Hubble. It took eight years to make it. The idea of the Hubble Space Telescope started to gain ideas in the 1960s, but it wasn’t until later that the Congress approved any funds to start making it. The telescope was completed in 1985 and launched in 1990. It is still in space today and in use.

The Hubble telescope is a telescope that orbits around Earth. The way they launched and positioned it is so it can be placed right above the atmosphere and it can also block the light that may reach our a planet so we can see what it would be like if there was no light on us in that certain area. It gives us a view of the universe that we normally don’t see because the light is blocking it. Later the telescope made a huge discovery that changed astronomy forever. The telescope determined in the 1920s that our Universe is expanding. Hubble showed that there were weird fuzzy patches of light in space were actually other galaxies, far away from our own galaxy of course.

Astronomer Edwin Hubble revolutionized the field of astronomy for the better. His research helped prove to us and other astronomers that the universe is expanding, and he created a coding system for galaxies that have been used for several decades. This is one of Nasa’s greatest achievements. Edwin’s telescope was so successful, but how did it get that successful, you might ask? When finally launched in 1990, Hubble’s main issue was found to have been launched incorrectly, testing the telescope’s capabilities and how strong it actually was. They had some doubt in it. It took three years before NASA could launch a repair mission to go in and fix it.

In the winter of 1993, they launched a mission to fix and repair it. The space shuttle Endeavor carried a crew of seven astronauts to fix the Hubble telescope, during five days of “spacewalks”. It was very nerve-racking and scary fixing something in space, but it came out very successful, and was totally worth it, as you can tell. The outcome of the telescope was that it orbits Earth and its position is above the atmosphere, which distorts and blocks the light that reaches our planet, gives it a view of the universe that typically telescopes don’t see. Hubble is one of NASA’s most successful and long-lasting science missions. And will be for a long time.

References

1. Sources: https://www.spacetelescope.org/about/history/the_man_behind_the_name/
2. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edwin-Hubble
3. http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/hubble_essentials/edwin_hubble.php