India, Jan. 16 -- The telescope has been the eyes of astrinomers above the Earth's atmosphere
When the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was launched, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic was still around, the Berlin Wall was standing and, back home, Indian quiz masters got a great question ask. It will be three decades on April 24, 2020; in this time the HST has fundamentally changed the way we understand the universe.
the telescope was named after Edwin Hubble, the American astronomer who had first propounded the theory of an expanding universe. The HST helped give astronomers precision on calculating the rate of the present expansion also known as the Hubble Constant. This helped to accurately calculate the age of the universe to 13.8 bil...