This orbiting observatory floats outside of the distorting influence of the earth s atmosphere and allows us to look further out into the universe than we ever have before.
Awesome pictures come back.
You can find them on various web sites. Like this one showing a swirling star cloud. Or this cloud of gas left over from the explosion of a dying star. Or these huge, towering clouds of gas that are the embryos of stars yet to be born. With the hubble space telescope we can now see objects in outer space that are 2 billion times fainter than what the unaided eye can see from earth.