A Brief History of the Hubble Space Telescope

Brief history of the hubble space telescope NASA

Celestial Wonders
Among the mesmerizing images the Hubble has captured are these "elephant trunks," towering columns of interstellar gas photographed in the Serpens constellation, 6,500 light-years from Earth.

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