{"id":416687,"date":"2026-04-25T09:50:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/416687\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T09:50:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:50:31","slug":"stunning-cosmic-wonders-mark-hubble-space-telescopes-36th-birthday-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/416687\/","title":{"rendered":"Stunning cosmic wonders mark Hubble Space Telescope\u2019s 36th birthday | National"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Dean Murray<\/p>\n

A jaw-dropping gallery of cosmic wonders marks the Hubble Space Telescope’s 36th anniversary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The selection includes an incredible image of a “sea slug-shaped” cosmic wonder called the Trifid Nebula, released this week by NASA to mark the spacecraft’s anniversary in Earth’s orbit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Hubble was launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and was deployed into Earth orbit<\/a> the following day.<\/p>\n

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The school-bus-sized telescope has since made nearly 1.7 million observations, targeting about 55,000 astronomical objects.<\/p>\n

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Its discoveries have resulted in over 22,000 scientific papers and more than 1.3 million citations, making it one of the most influential scientific instruments ever built.<\/p>\n

Its achievements include precisely measuring the universe\u2019s expansion<\/a> rate and contributing to the discovery of dark energy \u2013 a finding that led to the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.<\/p>\n

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