Happy Birthday to Hubble 哈勃望遠(yuǎn)鏡十周歲

Saturn, taken on Hubble's eighth birthday in 1998

（哈勃望遠(yuǎn)鏡在98年第八個(gè)生日時(shí)拍攝的土星照片）

Scientists have been paying tribute to the Hubble telescope, 10 years after it was launched.

The Challenger space shuttle carried the US-European space telescope into orbit on 24 April 1990, opening a new era in the history of astronomy.

David Leckrone, a scientist at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said.

"Not since Galileo aimed a small 30-power telescope into the night sky in 1609 has humanity's vision of the universe been so revolutionised in such a short time span by a single instrument."

世界各地的科學(xué)家們?yōu)楣h(yuǎn)鏡慶祝十周歲生日。

1990年的4月24日，挑戰(zhàn)者號航天飛機(jī)將歐美合作制造的哈勃望遠(yuǎn)鏡送入太空，從而宣告了天文學(xué)新時(shí)代的到來。

“自從1609年伽利略將他的30厘米望遠(yuǎn)鏡指向夜空起，還沒有任何工具在如此短期內(nèi)給人類的視野帶來如此重大的變革。”

美國航空航天局馬里蘭Goddard空間飛行中心的科學(xué)家David Leckrone說。