One of the greatest scientific accomplishments of the past 20th century is the placing of the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit in April 1990. The positioning of this marvel of space age technology outside the earth's atmosphere gave mankind a fresh and new view, not only of the celestial sphere, but also of the universe we all live in.
The Hubble Space Telescope, which is named in honor of the American astronomer Edwin Hubble, provides us with a perspective of the celestial sphere that was not possible before. Telescopes and observatories here on earth, in a way, had already given us an inkling and glimpses of the measureless vastness of the heavens through their eyepieces. But the clouds and the earth's atmosphere, in general, have always served as a sort of screen that perverted and obscured our visions through earth's telescopes.
What a shocking and humbling revelation indeed it became when the Hubble Space Telescope began sending its first sight of the stellar and galactic regions, free from the blurring effects of the earth's atmosphere. Colors, patterns, and displays beyond the capabilities of any of earth's artists' brushes and canvases to portray began to unfold their long hidden mysteries.
The Most Important Image Ever Taken (by the Hubble Space Telescope)
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