You might be surprised at how important the Mount Wilson telescope has been for science.
Space Week is Oct. 4-10, so here are some of NASA’s latest discoveries and why Edwin Hubble’s history-making photo, taken on this day in 1923, revolutionized astronomy.This image above is from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy IC 1954, located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Horologium. NASA posted the image on Sept. 27.
The data featured in this image come from a program that extends the cooperation among multiple observatories: Hubble, the infrared James Webb Space Telescope, and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a ground-based radio telescope.The Hubble Space Telescope orbits just above Earth’s atmosphere at an altitude of approximately 320 miles.
Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer is Hubble’s heat sensor. It’s sensitive to infrared light and lets scientists look for objects hidden by interstellar dust.Born in 1889 in Marshfield, Missouri, he entered the University of Chicago in 1906 as an undergraduate, earning a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and astronomy. He was one of the first Rhodes Scholars at Oxford University, where he studied law. He returned home to study astronomy at the University of Chicago. When the U.S.
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