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Hubble space telescope - Artist view

by

Nasa/ESA/Novapix

Reference

e-sou01-29002

Date

2008-09-11

The Hubble space telescope is in orbit at about 600km around the Earth. This 13 meters in length telescope  with a mirror of 2.4 meters (94.5 inches) in diameter is also equipped of many cameras and a spectrometer to observe the Universe in the visible and infrared light.