Hubble celebrates 100,000th orbit
Posted: Tue, Aug 12, 2008, 9:37 AM ET (1337 GMT)
Astronomers marked on Monday the 100,000th orbit around the Earth by the Hubble Space Telescope by releasing a colorful image of a nebula. The image, of a small portion of the Tarantula nebula 170,000 light-years away, shows a region of star birth. The image was released on Monday, the day that the spacecraft completed its 100,000th orbit around the Earth since its launch in 1990.
Astronomers marked on Monday the 100,000th orbit around the Earth by the Hubble Space Telescope by releasing a colorful image of a nebula. The image, of a small portion of the Tarantula nebula 170,000 light-years away, shows a region of star birth. The image was released on Monday, the day that the spacecraft completed its 100,000th orbit around the Earth since its launch in 1990. | <<previous article | next article>> |
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