Hubble Space Telescope: Photographing the Universe
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE PHOTOGRAPHING THE UNIVERSE By John Hamilton XTREME SPACECRAFT A & D Xtreme An Imprint of Abdo Publishing abdopublishing com
PHOTOGRAPHING THE UNIVERSE The Earth is always bathed in the light of distant stars The light may take millions of years to reach us But at the last moment it must pass through Earth's thick atmosphere before it can be seen Details become blurry Stars appear to twinkle because of pockets of cold and warm air 4
To make star gazing clearer in 1990 NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope HST It is an enormous observatory in orbit far above the 5 Earth
