Happy Birthday Hubble!

I just wanted to give a birthday shout out to the Hubble Space Telescope. Today marks it's 25th anniversary! Thanks to this telescope that was launched on April 24, 1990 we've been able to capture amazing images from our solar system and learn a lot more about the universe.  These photos are a few of my favorites.

Hubble's Greatest Hits- in my opinion

Some fun facts about Hubble:

• It transmits 120 gigabytes of data weekly- WOW!!!
• There has been  4 service missions since it's launch 
• It is  travelling about 17,500 mph
• It takes only about 97 min to orbit Earth 
• Hubble is about the size of a school bus
• It's solar powered
• It's named after astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble whos was nicked named the "pioneer of distant stars"  

You can find out more about of Hubble's amazing achievements at these links:

Hubble Space Telescope from NASA

Hubble's Discoveries from hubblesite.org

50 Best Hubble Images from Time Magazine

If you are looking to do something locally the Great Lakes Science Center is showing the Hubble movie in Imax daily at 2pm through the Sunday. I really like the movie still and that says a lot after I've seen probably over 20 times while working there. It follows the astronauts on one of the repair mission of Hubble. Trailer is below