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American congress aproves the idea and funding. this will be one of the biggest telescopes ever created.
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Scientists start training for space missions. and the 2.4 meter mirror is beginning to be made.
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The telescope is renamed after Edwin P. Hubble. named after him because he proved there were other galaxys, and also that space is expanding.
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Building is completed. Challanger incident puts all shuttle flights on hold.
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the shuttle is launched into space.
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the first servicing mission is allowed to go to work on the hubbles primary mirror.
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Hubble takes pictures of comet Shoemaker Levy 9 as it hits Jupiter
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Hubble takes the famous “pillars of creation” photo of the Eagle Nebula.
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The first Hubble Deep Field is released, showing the almost infinate number of galaxies in the Universe.
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HST Orbital Systems Test
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a mission was sent to the telescope to change out the gyro scopes
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hubble discovers that there are two more moons orbiting pluto
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hubble discovers eris is bigger than pluto and it is a dwarf planet, making pluto a dwarf planet also
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hubble makes its 100,000th orbit around earth.
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Hubble images show distant galaxies with likely redshifts greater than 8, showing the Universe as it was when it was less than a tenth of its current age.
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Hubble makes its millionth observation, a spectroscopic analysis of the exoplanet HAT-P-7b.
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