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Answer by quantumclaustrophobe
Some Infrared up to extreme ultraviolet.

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Primary mirror:
The main mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope, measuring 2.4 meters (94.5 inches) in diameter. The primary mirror captures light from objects in space and focuses it toward the secondary mirror.

Secondary mirror:
A smaller mirror (0.3 meters, or 12.2 inches) that redirects the light coming from the primary mirror through a hole in the center of the primary mirror and onward to the science instruments.

Focal plane:
Where Hubble’s images are formed. The mirrors focus the starlight onto the focal plane, which is roughly the size of a dinner plate. The light is then picked up by the science instruments.

Corrective optics: Corrective apparatus “worn” by each science instrument to compensate for the imperfect shape of the primary mirror. COSTAR provided the corrective optics for the original science instruments. (http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/nuts_.and._bolts/optics/optics2.php)

This website lets you track where the hubble is currently

http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/where.a.s_hubble_now/

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Answer by Tina L
teh hubble primary mirror is 2.4 meters in diameter

its not a schmit-cassegrain telesscope. its a ritchie-chretien telesscope.

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Answer by DaveSFV
HUH? There is only one Hubble telescope and there is not going to be a Hubble ll. Yes, there will be and are now telescopes being placed into space.

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Pluto is officially no longer a planet. The International Astronomical Union downgraded it as a “dwarf planet.” It wasn’t enormous enough to fit into the Union’s standards on how it really should clear its orbital neighborhood of similar-sized objects. As a matter of fact, Pluto is even smaller than the satellites of other planets within the solar program. What is more, it is actually even smaller than yet another Edgeworth-Kuiper object named Eris, that is only slightly bigger than Pluto. In contrast to the other planets inside the solar program, , Pluto’s satellite moon Charon, named right after the boatman in Greek mythology, who brought the dead across the River Styx to Pluto’s (God of the Underworld) realm is significantly bigger and is known as a double planet. It is feasible that Charon was formed following it collided with an additional celestial physique. Pluto rotates the sunlight in 6.4 days, that is similar as Charon. They rotate synchronously with each and every other’s orbit, which is not the case using the other planets and their moon satellites. The tidal results of Pluto and Charon have locked each into a mutual orbit resonance, which ensures they are for a dumbbell spinning in space. Thus, each are facing each other while rotating. Furthermore, they are very close to one another, like Earth and its moon. Pluto was found way back in 1930, even though Charon was only discovered in 1978 by Jim Christy. The reason is that the two celestial bodies were blurred, though becoming view by ground-based telescopes. Technological advancements like the Hubble SpaceTelescope made it feasible to watch Pluto and Charon, which regrettably was 1 of the bases of Pluto becoming downgraded as a “dwarf planet.” Charon is the largest moon inside the solar technique and in addition with respect to its main planet, Pluto. It doesn’t have an important atmosphere though founded on studies. Both, Charon and Pluto are found within the Kuiber Belt, a location which is darkened and isolated, so it truly is likened to the underworld. These two may be hardly seen by most telescopes, apart from the Hubble Telescope. They’re unique though when considering atmospheric color. Charon’s atmosphere is colored neutral gray and bluer than Pluto’s. The moon’s surface appears to be abundant with water ice, in comparison with Pluto’s which is nitrogen ice. Due to the fact each are quite distant, the air temperature ranges of both are exceedingly cold. Incredibly there is not much that is identified although about Pluto and Charon when looking at the appearance of their surfaces. These celestial bodies are pretty tiny, fuzzy objects that even the Hubble Space Telescope has trouble in explaining their surface attributes. Certain studies although suggest that the two worlds have contrasting surfaces. Pluto’s surface is derived from ice and rock, which is manufactured of carbon monoxide and methane. Charon on the other hand just isn’t, but is invented of quite a few ices. What is more, it provides a history of active geology, even with its frigid surface. Astronomers to today have additional questions than answers concerning Charon and Pluto. A future space probe might hopefully prove fruitful at some point and perchance show us unprecedented facts about these two dark and unique worlds. Until then, astronomers can simply rely on the Hubble Space Telescope for telescopic information. Be as it may, Both Pluto and Charon remind us how beautiful and mysterious our Universe is.

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It is a large orbiting telescope. It is not as large as the largest telescopes on the ground, but because it is above the atmosphere, it avoids the blurring effects of the atmosphere, which is also what makes the stars twinkle. Telescopes on the ground almost never show detail as small as they are capable of showing, because the atmosphere blurs the image before it ever gets to the telescope. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) can always see clearly to the theoretical limit of a telescope its size.

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How about one of the major servicing missions?
The first was necessary to correct the telescope’s fuzzy optics (without that servicing mission, it would have been simply a big pile of expensive junk).
The most recent one was a milestone, since it was also the last servicing mission (Hubble is 20 years old now, and showing its age).

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http://hubblesite.org/

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The Bible is unique in it’s preparation, circulation, translation, and preservation. The Bible is by far the most published book in the world. It was the first book ever printed on a printing press and has dominated the presses ever since. It was written over a period of 1,500 years by a great variety of men who were inspired of God. Also it has been translated into over 1000 foreign languages which are spoken by well over 90% of the world’s population. By the year of 2016, there is a real possibility that it will be so in all known languages. 
  
 
We all know that archaeology has independently confirmed the historical accuracy of the scriptures. And not only have nearly all of the locations and traditions that are mentioned in the Bible been confirmed by field workers in the Middle East and researchers that study ancient histories, but specific events cited have often been shown to match in great detail. Associates for Biblical Research has extensively excavated Jericho. One of the interesting features about this city is that the walls appear to have fallen outward. While an invading army would typically ram the walls inward upon the debris, the Bible declares that God caused the walls to fall flat, so that the Israelites could go straight in. Skeptics once believed that the book of Daniel was in error when it discussed Belshazzar ruling Babylon. The dynasties were revealed on cuneiform tablets excavated from ancient Babylon and Belshazzar did not appear on the list. Yet Unger’s Bible Dictionary tells how a later find revealed that the sovereign, Nabonidus, traveled extensively and in his absence left his son Belshazzar to rule as co-regent. That’s why, in seeking to offer the ultimate reward to anyone who could interpret the mysterious message of doom, Belshazzar offered the position of “third in the kingdom” (Daniel 5:7). He could do no more since he was only second himself. Sir William Ramsey is regarded as one of the greatest archaeologists ever to have lived. Skeptical of the authorship and accuracy of the gospels and Acts, Ramsey set out to investigate. Yet he concluded after 30 years of study that “Luke is a historian of the first rank; not merely are his statements of fact trustworthy, this author should be placed along with the very greatest of historians.” (Ramsey, W.M., The Bearing of Recent Discovery on the Trustworthiness of the New Testament, 1953, page 222.) 
  
Is the bible worth of your consideration in scientific matters? Of course. And here listed below are the biblical facts. Evolution of Creationism both are a matter of belief. The fact is that Evolutionists have far more faith in their system of accidental assembly, than those who believe that God created all things in a orderly fashion. 
  
The fact is the Bible is scientifically accurate. There has never been an irreconcilable discrepancy between scientific facts or laws and the scriptures. And the following facts are the proofs: 
  
* Jeremiah 33:22 claims that the stars of the heaven are innumerable. Hippocrates, before the invention of the telescope charted and numbered 1,022 stars. Kepler later recounted and revised the number. Today scientists agree with Jeremiah. There are billions just in our galaxy! It’s interesting that the Bible makes the number of stars roughly equivalent to the number of grains of sand on the seashore (Genesis 22:17; Hebrews 11:12). Carl Sagan also compared these two, leaning towards the number of stars being greater. Amazingly, the latest estimates of the gross number of sand grains are comparable to the modern estimated number of stars in the universe!

* Judges 5:20 mentions “the stars in their courses.” While it was once believed that the stars were fixed, today we know that they also move in a predictable way.

* Job 38:19 is accurate in the way it characterizes light. Note that darkness is in a place but light is in a way. It travels a path.

* Job 38:24 indicates the light of the sun (Via heating.) makes the wind.

* In Genesis 1:1 and Hebrews 1:10-12 the Bible is unequivocal that the universe had a beginning. When the Bible was written many people believed the universe was eternal. Starting with the studies of Albert Einstein in the early 1900’s and continuing still today, science has confirmed the biblical view that the universe had a beginning.

* The universe is always expanding (Job 9:8; Isaiah 42:5; Jeremiah 51:15; Zechariah 12:1). Repeatedly God declares that he stretches out the heavens. During the early 20th century, most scientists (including Einstein) believed the universe was static. Others believed it oscillated and would eventually collapsed due to gravity. Then in 1929, astronomer Edwin Hubble showed that distant galaxies were receding from the earth. This discovery revolutionized the field of astronomy. Einstein admitted his mistake, and today most astronomers agree with what the Creator told us a millennium ago that the universe is expanding!

* Job 36:27 asks how the rain drops stay small (That is despite or even in strong wind)? One of the reasons is found in Psalm 135:5-7. Because of the electrical charges in the clouds, the rain drops repel each other as they fall. This is why electrical static during a rain or snow storm can interrupt transmissions.

* Ezekiel 5:5, 38:12 claimed that Jerusalem is the center of the earth. ICR commissioned a computer analysis of the earth’s land-masses and discovered that the geographic center is in Palestine, near the holy city.

*Psalm 103:12 The Psalmist seeks to describe how far away God has removed the sins of those who have been forgiven. Interestingly, one can go west or east forever, unlike north and south.

* Hebrews 1:11-12 describes the wearing down of the creation in language that nicely mirrors the second law of thermodynamics and II Peter 3:12 describes the heavens one day passing away in a fire that causes the elements to melt in fervent heat (a pretty accurate description of nuclear meltdown).

* Ecclesiastes 1:4-7 describes the whirling motion of the winds and the movement of storm fronts long before the advent of modern meteorology.

* Job 37:16 also gives significant meteorological information, including the balancing of the vapors in the clouds. Job 36:27 adds that the quantity of the rain is proportional to the amount of vapor aloft.

* Job 26:7 The ancients Greeks believed that the world was held up by Atlas. Other civilizations held similar ideas. The Bible made an unusual claim: God did not hang the world on anything.

* Psalm 8:8 discusses the “paths of the seas.” The story is told that when the man we call “the Father of Oceanography,” Matthew Fontain Maury, read Psalm 8 the aforementioned phrase stuck in his mind. He later sought to confirm the idea and eventually wrote The Physical Geography of the Sea in1855. It was the first textbook on modern oceanography. The state of Virginia erected a memorial to him that cites this passage.

* Isaiah 40:22 Some have claimed that the Bible supports the “flat earth theory.” But this passage declares that God sits upon the “circle of the earth.”

* Job 38:13-14 conveys the idea of the earth rotating on its axis: “the earth…is turned as clay to the seal.”

* In Luke 17:34-36 the worldwide event of Christ’s return is being discussed. The scientifically significant fact is that these verses allude to the different time zones around the globe long before the earth’s rotation was understood by scientists. Note that when Christ comes, some will be enjoying nighttime sleep while others are grinding in preparation for the day’s baking (typically morning) and others are working in the field (typically afternoon).

* One of the directors of Standard Oil Company read in Exodus 2:3 how Moses was placed in an ark “daubed with slime and pitch.” He then sent the company geologist Charles Whitshott to determine if there was still oil in that region. The discovery of oil led to Standard having great success well operations in Egypt. (Tan, Paul L., Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations, p. 191.)

* The practice of medical bleeding as a treatment (often with leeches) was common until the middle of the 19th century. Historians believe that George Washington’s bleeding caused his death. (Thayer, William R., George Washington, 1922, p. 240) Ironically, by his bedside was a Bible that stated in Leviticus 17:11 “For the life of the flesh is in the blood.”

* Linguists have determined that all the earth’s peoples must have originally shared a common language. That is exactly what the Bible declared in Genesis 11:1.

* The concept of embodied in the laws of thermodynamics: the constant of the universe’s mass/energy and the universal tendency towards decay and disorder are clearly articulated in Ecclesiastes 3:14 and Romans 8:21-22.

* Jonah wrote that there are mountains on the bottom of the ocean floor (Jonah 2:5-6). Only in the last century have we discovered that there are towering mountains and deep troughs in the sea.

* In Job 38:16 God challenged Job to find the “springs of the sea.” But the ocean is so deep that almost all the ocean floor is in total darkness and the water pressure becomes enormous. It would have been impossible for Job to have explored the “springs of the sea.” Until recently, it was thought that oceans were fed only by rivers and rain. Yet in the 1970s, with the help of deep diving research submarines that were constructed to withstand the pressure, oceanographers discovered springs on the ocean floors!

* Much of the Old Testament Levitical law is comprised of health-related restrictions involving diet, cleansing, and quarantine. The book “None of These Diseases” and Keller’s work demonstrate the healthfulness of following that advice. Human medicine did not realize this until thousands of years after it was written! For example, the Bible cautions against consuming fat (Leviticus 7:23). Only in recent decades has the medical community determined that fat clogs arteries and contributes to heart disease. In Leviticus 11 the Scripture commanded Jews to avoid sea creatures which do not have fins or scales. We now know that bottom-feeders (those with no scales or fins) tend to consume waste and are more likely to carry disease. Then the Bible warns against eating birds of prey. Scientists now recognize that those birds which eat carrion (putrefying flesh), often spread disease. The Bible prohibited the Israelites from eating swine (Deuteronomy 14:8). Not so long ago, science learned that eating undercooked pork causes an infection of parasites called trichinosis. When dealing with diseases, the instruction was that clothes and body should be washed under running water (Leviticus 15:13). For centuries people ignorantly washed in standing water. Today we recognize the need to wash away germs with fresh water.

* The Bible declares that life begins at conception (Jeremiah 1:5) and God declares that He knew each of us before we were born (Psalm 139:13-15). In Exodus 21:22-23, the biblical penalty for killing an unborn child was death. Today, it is an irrefutable biological fact that the fertilized egg is truly an entire human being. Nothing will be added to the first cell except nutrition and oxygen.

* The Bible commanded circumcision of baby Jewish boys on the eighth day. (See Genesis 17:12; Leviticus 12:3; Luke 1:59). Medical science has discovered that the blood clotting chemical prothrombin peaks in a newborn on the eighth day. This is therefore the safest day to circumcise a baby. Moses did not know this, but God who knows all and created all things certainly did.

* Wise pest-control procedures are given in Leviticus 25:1-24. Modern farmers are still plagued by multiplying insects. Yet God gave a sure remedy to control these pests centuries ago. Moses commanded Israel to set aside one year in seven when no crops were raised. Insects winter in the stalks of last year’s harvest, hatch in the spring, and are perpetuated by laying eggs in the new crop. If the crop is denied one year in seven, the pests are controlled and it also promotes soil conservation.

* When Noah was instructed to build the huge barge that would preserve his family and two of each kind of land creature, the Lord specified for him the perfect dimensions for a stable water vessel (Genesis 6:15). Ship builders today are well aware that the ideal dimension for ship stability is to have the length about six times that of the width. And Dr. Werner Gitt demonstrated that the ark had the ideal dimensions to optimize both stability and economy of material. Yet God gave Noah these ideal dimensions over 4,500 years ago. 
  
Recently there have been articles published claiming that the human rib is the only bone that has been shown to grow back. It’s no coincidence that this is the bone God took from Adam. A strong case has even been made that science has flourished to unprecedented levels when in times of strong scriptural beliefs.

In the history of modern astronomy, there is probably no one greater leap forward than the building and launch of the space telescope known as the Hubble. While NASA has had many ups and downs, the launch and continued operation of the Hubble space telescope probably ranks next to the moon landings and the development of the Space Shuttle as one of the greatest space exploration accomplishments of the last hundred years.

A marvelous piece of astronomy trivia that few people know is that in truth, only about ten percent of the universe is visible using conventional methods of observation. For that reason, the Hubble really was a huge leap forward. That is for the very simple reason that the Hubble can operate outside of the atmosphere of Earth. Trying to make significant space exploration via telescopes from the terrestrial surface of planet Earth is very difficult. That very thing that keeps us alive, our own Earth’s atmosphere presents a serious distraction from being able to see deeper and further into space.

The Hubble space telescope was named after the great scientist and visionary Edward Hubble who discovered that the universe was expanding which was explained by what is now known in science as Hubble’s Law. To truly get a feel for the amazing accomplishment that was achieved with the launch of the Hubble telescope, spend some time on Nasa’s web site dedicated to the project at http://hubble.nasa.gov. There are also a number of sites where you can enjoy some stunning pictures from the Hubble including http://heritage.stsci.edu/ and http://www.stsci.edu/ftp/science/hdf/hdf.html.

It’s hard to believe how long the Hubble has been orbiting earth and sending back amazing video and pictures of what it is discovering in space. But the Hubble was actually initially launched on April 25th 1990. It was the culmination of literally decades of research and construction which began in 1977. Expectations were high as the orbiting telescope was put in place and actually began to function as it was designed to do.

All was not always perfect with the telescope and the early pictures were disappointing. After some study NASA discovered that the reason for the early failures was the curvatures of one of the main lenses of the orbiting telescope.

We probably could never have kept this intricate piece of equipment operational as well as we have had we not had the Space Shuttle program to give us a tool to implement repairs and improvements to the Hubble. In 1993 a new lens was installed on the Hubble which corrected the problem of picture resolution that was noted in the early operation of the telescope.

Two other repair and upgrade mission have been made to the Hubble since it launched, both of them in 1997 to upgrade older equipment and to retrofit the telescope to extend its useful life through 2010. It’s pretty amazing to think that this scientific and mechanical marvel has been operating now for ten years without maintenance. We can be assured that plans are in the works for NASA to upgrade or replace parts on the Hubble to extend its useful life even further as that 2010 time frame draws closer.

It is hard to imagine the science of astronomy or the natural quest for greater knowledge of our universe without the Hubble. While many times those who would not fund space exploration have tried to cut funding for the Hubble, the operation of this telescope is just too important to astronomers and to the scientific well being of mankind and our planet not to continue to use the Hubble, or its next natural successor. We will always need to have a set of eyes in the sky to watch the universe and discover more of its mysteries.

Unfortunately you will find a lot of terrible telescopes on the market as well as more of them in the shops at Christmas time. These poor high quality telescopes are often offered in division and low cost stores where the staff don’t know one finish from the other and are merely not experienced sufficient to provide you with any actual advice.

These telescopes often come in extraordinary looking containers total with artists impressions and photos of faraway planets and nebulae all in crisp clear colour. The truth is far eliminated from those images! Most of those low cost low cost store scopes are made with poor quality glass, mirrors and eyepieces. If that’s not bad enough, they also include flimsy mounts that shake and vibrate so a lot they spoil what small see you might have had achieved anyway.

One specific warning you should heed is to watch out for the kind that come with large daring lettering boasting of 600x magnification or other large quantity. An professional would not think like that because magnification isn’t the objective, achieving a great view will be the prime goal.

An over-magnified image is only a fuzzy blob and as a result pointless to have. Also you won’t be seeing a lot colour apart from that from your nearby planets, those stunning pictures of nebulae are generally photos taken from your Hubble Space Telescope!

Also don’t get fixated on the size of the scope simply because those larger scopes tend not to perform at their best within the cities and suburbs where mild pollution is this kind of an issue. Remember the smaller the scope the easier it is to use so it will tend to get utilized much more and there is no stage investing cash on a scope that does not get utilized much!

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