NASA plans to fix a glitch that has stopped the Hubble space telescope from being used for science work for more than a month.
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The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation.
The Hubble telescope is named after astronomer Edwin Hubble and is one of NASA's Great Observatories, along with the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (1991–2000), the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Spitzer Space Telescope (2003–2020).
Hubble and its four main instruments observe in the ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Hubble's orbit outside the distortion of atmosphere of Earth allows it to capture extremely high-resolution images with substantially lower background light than ground-based telescopes.
It has recorded some of the most detailed visible light images, allowing a deep view into space.
Many Hubble observations have led to breakthroughs in astrophysics, such as determining the rate of expansion of the universe.