The Hubble Space Telescope discovered something unprecedented and NASA will announce it in a few hours – Teach Me About Science

NASA will announce an unprecedented discovery from the Hubble Space Telescope. (Image: NASA).

Dear netizens, I am pleased to inform you that we have some new science, NASA has said that the Hubble Space Telescope team has made an unprecedented discovery and it will be announced this Wednesday, March 30.. We have already seen something similar in 2020, when NASA confirmed the presence of water on the Moon (a greater amount than previously thought); now it’s a cosmic discovery, what could the legendary Hubble have seen?

Yes, that is the mysterious question at the moment, what is such an exciting discovery? Hubble has dazzled humanity for nearly 32 years with its iconic images of the cosmos. We know that this gem of a space telescope has changed our understanding of the universe by rewriting textbooks.

the new discovery It will further expand our understanding of the universe, as well as create a new line of future research hand in hand with the recently launched James Webb Space Telescope. This is really spectacular! We are talking about the most powerful telescope in history starting a complementary mission with Hubble much sooner than previously thought.

“A record for the books. On Wednesday, March 30 at 11:00 a.m. EDT, NASA will announce an exciting new observation from the Hubble Space Telescope, space agency officials write«. Live or recorded interviews will be offered (enter the official NASA channel by clicking here) on the following days and times:

• March 30, 2022 from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm EST
• March 31, 2022 from 6:00 am to 12:00 pm EST

Hubble (HST, Hubble Space Telescope) is the most famous, and probably the most successful, space observatory that has ever existed. The 11-tonne telescope was placed in a 570-km-high orbit around the Earth by the space shuttle in April 1990. It has made countless discoveries and thousands of articles have been published thanks to that data.

Unlike Hubble, James Webb was launched in December 2021 and is orbiting the Sun 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, at a place called the second Lagrange point. There, far from the interference of light from the Earth and the Moon, he will focus his attention on the early universe, on the atmospheres of exoplanets and on other sciences.

Another difference is that it is designed to see infrared light, light that is just outside of the visible spectrum, and just outside of what we can see with our human eyes. The longer wavelengths of infrared penetrate dust more easily, allowing you to see more clearly; In addition, it allows scientists to go back in time thanks to a phenomenon called red shift. Its unfolding mirror is almost 6.5 meters in diameter, about triple Hubble’s aperture of 2.4 meters.

The James Webb Space Telescope, also called Webb or JWST, is an international program run by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency. Its development was thanks to the work of more than a thousand scientists from all over the world, for more than 2 decades in which a series of difficulties had to be overcome. The effort was totally worth it, as Webb is now the world’s premier space science observatory.

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