The Hubble Space Telescope (the HST or just the Hubble) is in earth orbit. Oh! You mean where in earth orbit! NASA is keeping an eye on it, and you can look over their shoulder by using the link provided.
Sky Lab fell out of orbit and was destroyed by re-entry a long time ago.
The Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station are both in low earth orbit
right now.
Neither of them is in any kind of synchronous orbit. Both of them orbit the earth with periods
of less than 2 hours; so they are constantly moving through the sky and overpassing different
places on earth, both day and night.
Times of visible passes for your specific location can be gotten from Heavens-above.com .
The Hubble Space Telescope was flown into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, mission STS-31, on April 24, 1990. On the subsequent servicing mission, in December, 1993, flaws in the original optics were corrected.
They are able to see further into space now and see more detail of certain objects. Before telescopes, it was all observation astronomy. Whatever you could see with your naked eye was it. Once the telescope was invented, they were able to see more detail of our night sky. Scientists were able to identify and watch celestial objects over periods of time. watching their movements
You don't actually need a telescope to look at "Space". Just look up on a clear night sky and hey presto! You can see the Universe before your very eyes! But if you want to look at planets or you want a close up picture of the moon I suggest you use a quality telescope.
Meteors hit the Earth's atmosphere and burn up in a second or two. They streak across the night sky and are gone. Comets are farther away, and move only slowly, night by night, across the sky.
The word that is used for a group of stars in the night sky is a star cluster.
a hubble space telescope
The sky-lab did the same thing a space station would do
The Hubble Space Telescope is the "Eye in the Sky."
It would take at least 1,000,000 years for the Hubble Space Telescope to observe over the entire sky of 100 billion galaxies in the universe.
The purpose of the sky lab was so that scientists and astronauts could study different aspects of being in space. They could also find out how plants acted in space.
The atmosphere of earth tends to distort images from space. Since Hubble operates outside earths atmosphere, the images it can produce are much more clear.
On the 14th of May, 1973.
the first space station built was the sky lab in 1973.
Edwin Hubble invented a simple classification system for galaxies. The Hubble Space Telescope was named after him for his discoveries in astronomy.
Astrophysics is the love of the night sky/stars/celestial space
Generally telescopes. These can vary from small affairs you set up in the garden to study the sky, to those actually in the sky as with the Hubble Space Telescope. There are also many dotted around in observatories.
There are a few reasons. When you watch the stars at night, you’ve seen how they twinkle. This is because of atmospheric distortion, and that really hampers the ability of telescopes on Earth to get clear images. Since the Hubble is above the atmosphere, it isn’t affected by atmospheric distortion - for Hubble, the stars don’t twinkle. Another reason is that Hubble doesn’t have to contend with light pollution. Telescopes are places in areas where they sky is affected as little as possible by light, but there’s always some light. Another is that Hubble can take very long exposures. Telescopes on Earth are limited to observations at night, but Hubble can take very long exposures, and can observe an object indefinitely.