* The Hubble Telescope is 43.5 feet long and 14 feet wide. It weighs 24,500 pounds and cost $1.5 billion initially.

* The Hubble Telescope is 43.5 feet long and 14 feet wide. It weighs 24,500 pounds and cost $1.5 billion initially.
* The telescope was named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble. Hubble was the scientist who discovered there were galaxies beyond our own and helped confirm that the unierse was expanding beyond our Milky Way. This provided other scientists a foundation for the Big Bang Theory.
* The Hubble Telescope receives its energy from the sun through two 25-foot solar panels while orbiting about 353 miles above Earth.
* The telescope is expected to remain operational until 2014, about 24 years after its launch. It will then be replaced with the James Webb Space Telescope