A New Angle on Two Spiral Galaxies for Hubble's 27th Birthday
April 20, 2017
April 20, 2017
BALTIMORE, April 20 -- NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute issued the following news release:
HUBBLE TRIVIA 2017
* Launched on April 24, 1990, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made more than 1.3 million observations of more than 42,000 celestial objects.
* In its 27-year lifetime the telescope has made nearly 148,000 trips around our planet. Hubble has racked up plenty of frequent-flier miles, about 3.8 billion.
* An average of a . . .
HUBBLE TRIVIA 2017
* Launched on April 24, 1990, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made more than 1.3 million observations of more than 42,000 celestial objects.
* In its 27-year lifetime the telescope has made nearly 148,000 trips around our planet. Hubble has racked up plenty of frequent-flier miles, about 3.8 billion.
* An average of a . . .