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The Hubble Space Telescope is a large telescope in outer space , orbiting 353 miles above Earth and was launched in 1990. It was named after American Astronomer Edwin P. Hubble.

It is as heavy as two elephants and around the size of a bus and it can travel 5 miles per second. It is what takes beautiful pictures of space that we see on the internet, and can see really far.(Hubble Space Telescope: Pictures, Facts & History, 2013). The Hubble Space Telescope has are ac system called the Optical Telescope Assembly, which consists two mirrors.Facing toward outer space, it takes photos deep into outer space in observed in UV, visible and infrared light and sends it back to Earth using radio waves. It uses energy from the sun as its main

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