User:Siguy/Hubble Space Telescope
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The Hubble Space Telescope, not to be confused with the Hubble Space Telescope, is a huge, and I mean huge, space telescope currently operated by NASA. We can thank our wonderful scientists at NASA for some of the most iconic images ever produced. Your stupid 4" refractor and Meade DSI II just can't compare.
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[edit] History
[edit] Early
The Hubble Telescope was originally theorized by Lyman Spitzer in 1946 when a cloud covered the small community of Astronomy Land. Mass panic ensued as not a star, terrestrial planet, Jovian planet, comet, asteroid, meteor, planetary nebula, reflection nebula, emission nebula, spiral galaxy, irregular galaxy, barred spiral galaxy, elliptical galaxy, globular cluster, open cluster, molecular cloud, quasar, cosmic string, Google, Youtube, 4chan, or any other astronomical object was visible. The entire town was destroyed by rioting. 23 lives were claimed. This led to the idea of building a telescope above the clouds, so that the wonders of the universe can easily be seen without needing patience.
[edit] Funding
Most people believed Lime Spritzer was crazy after he presented his idea. There was no way to build an observatory so tall that it would be above the clouds. Even if there were a way to build such a large structure, nobody wants to climb 126,368,543 flights of stairs to work at an observatory. This, and the fact that the Ritchey-Chrétien telescope had not yet been invented.
[edit] Construction
Serious funding and construction never began until long after the telescope was first conceived. NASA
