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The Hubble telescope is located outside our atmosphere and is orbiting the Earth at more than 500 km above sea level, while orbiting the Earth every hour and a half, at a speed of 28,000 km an hour. Its name was given to it in honor of famed astronomer Edwin Hubble, and it was placed in orbit back in 1990, 22 years ago. It weighs about 11 tons (but in space, it weighs nothing at all). |
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But the most interesting thing about the Hubble telescope is its ability to obtain images of the vast universe we are in, and it is responsible for a lot of our knowledge of what the universe and our galaxy really look like... |
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