Hubble special edition

Astronaut Story Musgrave prepares to be elevated to the top of Hubble to install protective covers on its pointing control system, during the mission to repair Hubble. Credit: NASA

What was wrong with Hubble’s mirror, and how was it fixed?

Listen to the latest podcast from the makers of BBC Sky at Night Magazine, in which we look back at 30 years of the Hubble Space Telescope

Radio Astronomy Podcast 30 years of the Hubble Space Telescope

Diagram of the Hubble Space Telescope from 1981. Credit: Lockheed Missiles and Space Company (Lockheed Martin).

How did the Hubble Space Telescope come about?

Hubble's famous 1995 image the 'Pillars of Creation'. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, J. Hester and P. Scowen (Arizona State University)

What Hubble’s launch meant to me, as an amateur astronomer

Hubble Space Telescope sporting new solar arrays during SM3B Credit: NASA/ESA

How the Hubble Space Telescope changed our view of the Universe

The Hubble Space Telescope pictured following a successful service mission carried out via Space Shuttle Discovery Credit: NASA/ESA

Hubble at 30 Marking 3 decades of the famous telescope

Spiral galaxy NGC 2273. Credit: Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Greene

Eye On The Sky Hubble spies a spiral within a spiral galaxy

Galaxy UGC 2885. Credit: NASA/ESA and B. Holwerda (University of Louisville)

Eye On The Sky Hubble spies galaxy 2.5 times the diameter of the Milky Way

Veil Nebula 24 September 2015. A small section of the outer shell of the Veil Nebula, the remnant of a star’s violent death 8,000 years ago. Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team

Hubble at 30 21 incredible images of the past decade

Former NASA astronaut Kathy Sullivan. Credit: Debbie Rowe

Hubble at 30 Astronaut Kathy Sullivan on launching the famous space telescope

Hubble’s view of galaxy GN-z11; now the most distant galaxy ever observed. The galaxy is in fact glowing with bright young blue stars, but is red in this image because its light has been stretched due to the expansion of the Universe. This stretching enabled astronomers to accurately determine its distance. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, P. Oesch (Yale University), G. Brammer (STScI), P. van Dokkum (Yale University), and G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Hubble spots farthest galaxy ever seen

Hyades star cluster by Philip Pugh.

Hyades January 7th 2016