“Hubble isn’t just a satellite; it’s about humanity’s quest for knowledge,” said astronaut and former NASA Chief Scientist, John M. Grunsfeld about the iconic space telescope. Looking at Hubble’s ground-breaking “Deep Field” images that show the most distant galaxies that can be observed in visible light leaves us feeling like something else is going about its business out there.
Transformed Our View of Where We Are
“We are born into the world like actors who are placed on a stage without a script. The Hubble Space Telescope has transformed our understanding of that stage,” wrote Harvard astronomer, Avi Loeb in an email to The Daily Galaxy. “From discovering four moons around Pluto to gorgeous images of the delivery rooms of young stars and planets, to the accelerated expansion of the universe at large, this telescope transformed our view of where we are to the realm of the magnificent.”
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February marked noteworthy progress for the James Webb Space Telescope of NASA as it completed its last functional performance tests at the Redondo Beach, California-based Northrop Grumman.
According to a Space Coast Daily report, testing teams were successful in completing two important milestones that verified the internal electronics of the observatory are all functioning, as they are designed for, as seen on Cosmoknowledge s YouTube video below, and that the spacecraft, including its four scientific instruments, can both deliver and receive data appropriately through the same network they will utilize in space.
Such milestones move the NASA telescope closer to prepared for launch later this year, specifically in October. The said trials are known as the all-inclusive systems test, which occurred in the Northrop Grumman, and the ground segment trial, which occurred in collaboration with the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.