Telescope

Telescope is an optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer, containing an arrangement of lenses, or of curved mirrors and lenses, by which rays of light are collected and focused and the resulting image magnified.

Hubble Telescope

Hubble Telescope was launched into orbit around 1990, orbiting 550 kilometers above The Earths surface

Measure the expansion rate of the universe

Find distant galaxies

Determine the chemical content of the space between galaxies

A single Hubble snapshot can portray the universe in as awesome, mysterious, and beautiful