Hubblecast 36 part 1: Gifts from the sky: honouring 20 years of Hubble

Throughout its 20-year career, while moving at a staggering 28 000 kilometres per hour, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made more than 930 000 observations and snapped over 570 000 images of 30 000 celestial objects. It has made more than 110 000 trips around our planet while collecting more than 45 terabytes of data, enough information to fill nearly 5800 DVD movies. Astronomers using Hubble data have published more than 8700 scientific papers, making it one of the most productive scientific instruments ever built. Join Dr J as he reviews the life of this prized observatory and presents it the Cosmic Lifetime Achievement Award for the scientific and artistic gifts it has given us.

You can download this episode on: http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1007a/

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Science & Technology

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• hubblecast
• hubble
• astronomy
• carina nebula

[DrGoulu]

20 more years ! 20 more years !

[jemar120011]

i <3 this i watch 1-36 :D

[CathySander]

@JaredProject: The one fact that makes this all possible is the constant speed of light. As a result, it takes a lot of time from distant galaxies to travel to the telescope, carrying information about what happened then. We can never find out what these galaxies are doing now, but we can study its past dynamics.

[JaredProject]

@trisclay1652 I'm not a retard. I've already figured it out, so your no longer needed now. You can go back to being a dickhead to other people since you have nothing better to do..

[trisclay1652]

@JaredProject light years retard

[JaredProject]

i still dont understand how if you see hubble deep photos, that your actually looking back in time.. someone please explain

[KiaOra53]

Fabulous.

[0Ojoost14O0]

Amazing Pictures! Congratulations and greetings from Haarlem, The Netherlands

[movetwomusic]

fantastic artwork!

[toseemountains]

For its retirement plans I humbly suggest that Hubble gets a nice and comfortable permanent docked spot at the ISS