NASA pays tribute to Edwin Hubble, shares stunning montage of space discoveries | Watch

Paying a tribute to Astromer Edwin P. Hubble on his birthday, National Aeronautics and ncy (NASA) posted a mont showcasing all discoveries me by his namesake telescope. Shared on Instagram, two and a half minute video features cosmic encounters, storm on or planets, bursting stars inter alia. Launched in April 1990, it is Hubble telescope which has revealed universe’s secrets capturing over a million observations, NASA said.

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In its social media post, NASA revealed that celestial telescope is capable of getting equipped with vanced science instruments. Highlighting its contributions, y wrote that it was Hubble telescope which first revealed that universe was constantly expanding. Since shared, stunning video has crossed one lakh eighty thousand views and racked up a varied amount of comments. While many users wished  ‘Happy birthday Hubble’, many lauded super “intriguing” video clip.

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Who was Dr Hubble ?

Edwin Hubble, after whom Hubble Telescope is named, used largest telescope of his day in 1920s at Mt. Wilson Observatory near Pasena, California to discover galaxies beyond our own. According to American ncy, it was him who first confirmed an "expanding" universe, which provided foundation for big-bang ory. He also played a crucial role in establishing fields of extragalactic astromy and observational cosmology, Born in 1889, Hubble proved that many objects previously thought to be clouds of dust and gas and classified as "nebulae" were actually galaxies beyond Milky Way. 

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Hubble Telescope

“Hubble's launch and deployment in April 1990 marked most significant vance in astromy since Galileo's telescope. Thanks to five servicing missions and more than 25 years of operation, our view of universe and our place within it has never been same,” NASA wrote on its website.

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