How was the Hubble telescope invented, what gave them the idea to make such a thing , did any telescopes come before that helped them develop this idea?
Has the technology world gained anything from the invention , has it lead to anything greater being invented ?
The Hubble telescope is _not_ an "invention." There is nothing new about it: it is a natural evolution from trends in astronomy going back centuries. It is a normal modern research telescope, only unusual in that it is placed in an orbiting satellite, so that it is above the turbulence of the Earth’s atmosphere.
Te original Hubble telescope had a major optical flaw and produced very poor images. This led scientists to develop sophisticated image processing techniques to extract sharp images from fuzzy ones. These techniques are used widely today in medical imaging.
February 26th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
The Hubble telescope is _not_ an "invention." There is nothing new about it: it is a natural evolution from trends in astronomy going back centuries. It is a normal modern research telescope, only unusual in that it is placed in an orbiting satellite, so that it is above the turbulence of the Earth’s atmosphere.
Te original Hubble telescope had a major optical flaw and produced very poor images. This led scientists to develop sophisticated image processing techniques to extract sharp images from fuzzy ones. These techniques are used widely today in medical imaging.
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February 26th, 2010 at 4:05 pm
The Hubble Space Telescope was named after astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble (1889–1953), who made some of the most important discoveries in modern astronomy.
The idea for the space telescope arose in 1923, when German scientist Hermann Oberth, one of the founders of rocketry, suggested blasting a telescope into space aboard a rocket. In 1946, Lyman Spitzer Jr., an American astrophysicist, wrote a paper proposing a space observatory. He would spend the next 50 years working to make the space telescope a reality.
Hubble’s discoveries have transformed the way scientists look at the universe. Its ability to show the universe in unprecedented detail has turned astronomical conjectures into concrete certainties. It has winnowed down the collection of theories about the universe even as it sparked new ones, clarifying the path for future astronomers.
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http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/hubble_essentials