What if you could see a star being born from millions of miles away?

The Day Hubble Opened Its Eye to the Universe!

How a giant space telescope changed everything we know about stars

NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope, showing us amazing pictures of the universe!

On April 23, 1990, something INCREDIBLE happened high above Earth! The Space Shuttle Discovery released the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit — and our view of the universe was about to change forever!

Imagine a telescope as big as a school bus, floating 340 miles above our heads. That's Hubble! It weighs as much as two adult elephants and circles Earth every 97 minutes. That's FAST!

But here's the really cool part: Why put a telescope in space? Think about looking at stars through a swimming pool — everything looks wavy and blurry, right? Earth's atmosphere does the same thing to light from space! By putting Hubble above all that air, scientists could finally see the universe super clearly.

Hubble has shown us things we never knew existed! It found black holes lurking in distant galaxies. It took pictures of stars being BORN inside colorful clouds of gas. It even helped scientists figure out the universe is about 13.8 billion years old!

💡 Hubble can see so far that looking through it is like spotting a firefly from 10,000 miles away!