哈勃太空望远镜(Hubble Space Telescope, HST)是NASA与欧洲空间局(ESA)合作的里程碑式天文观测项目。哈勃望远镜于1990年4月24日由发现号航天飞机送入轨道,运行在地球约547公里高的低地球轨道。哈勃望远镜以其深空成像闻名,帮助科学家确定了宇宙的年龄和膨胀速率,发现了暗能量的存在。
Hubble Telescope celebrates 36th anniversary with gorgeous new image of famous Trifid Nebula
来源: Space.com The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 36th anniversary in space this week with a glimpse into the heart of a major star-forming region, presented in prismatic color. Nebula sparkles in new Hubble snapshot | Space photo of the day for April 23, 2026 Satellite snaps amazing 36th birthday pic of Hubble Space Telescope (photo) Hubble revisits the Crab Nebula after 25 years | Space photo of the day for March 24, 2026 The spike pointing straight up is a pillar of denser gas and dust that has not yet been eroded by the barrage of ultraviolet light and powerful particle winds from nearby newborn massive stars that are just beyond the edges of this image. At the tip of the pillar, we can see a star that has formed. Although it is still embedded in the nebula and not clearly visible, we can see what looks a little like the tip of a fingernail around it. This, it seems, is a circumstellar disk that one day will form planets. ...