A Guide to the Hubble Space Telescope Including Its Instruments, Shuttle Missions, Special Fields, and More (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Hubble Space Telescope, which is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by a space shuttle in 1990. Hubble is one of the largest and most versatile telescopes, and is well-known as both a vital research tool and a public relations boon for astronomy. It was built by the United States space agency NASA, with contributions from the European Space Agency, and is operated by the Space Telescope Science Institute. It is named after the astronomer Edwin Hubble. The Hubble is the only telescope ever designed to be serviced in space by astronauts. Read about its shuttle missions and instruments including the Advanced Camera for Surveys, Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, Fine Guidance Sensor, and much more. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge.