The Coolest Hubble Space Images

First, Fun Facts about the Hubble!

Just some cool info!

• The Hubble Space Telescope was named after Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer who first confirmed that the universe is actually expanding.
• The Hubble was first launched on April 24, 1990. It cost 1.5 billion US dollars to do make and launch!
• It was supposed to be in use at once for 20 years, so it was supposed to come down in 2010. But it will still be in use until at least 2014.
• It is about 43 feet long, and 14 feet diameter, so it is about the size of a school bus! It weighs 11110 kg. But of course in space, it's feather weight!
• The Hubble moves at 5 miles per second around the Earth! Notice I said second, not hour. It takes 97 minutes for a complete revolution around Earth. It travels at 17500mph!
• Despite of all the crazy things it can view, The Hubble can not view Mercury, or the Sun.
• The first picture it took was a picture of Star Cluster NGC 3532, in May 1990.
• In the past 20 years, it has made over 950.000 observations, and has taken over 580,000 images of objects in space!
• In the past 20 years, it has traveled around the Earth over 115,000 times!
• After 20 years in Space, it has came up with over 45 terabytes of data! And to think, 1024 gigabytes make up 1 terabyte. that's a lot of data. Still not too sure how much that is? That's about 11,520,000 songs worth of data. Woah.