Quotes About Hubble

Hubble is unique. Nothing else can do what it can do. Once it's gone, we're going to be paralyzed.

There's a cluster of five galaxies called Stephan's Quintet, which we see through the Hubble telescope spectacularly colliding with each other. But we see them colliding 280 million years ago. If there are aliens in one of those colliding galaxies with a telescope powerful enough to see us, what they are seeing on Earth, at this very moment, here and now, is the early ancestors of the dinosaurs.

The thing about telescopes is that the mirror is the main component. Once that's built, you don't need to build new ones; you just need to swap out the instruments. There's nothing wrong with Hubble's mirror.

I've been going insane reading my students' papers. Apparently several of them think the Hubble Space Telescope is used to search the universe for hubbles." ~ Ithana Aaronson

papers. Apparently several of them think the Hubble Space Telescope is used to search the universe for hubbles.

When I first went to Hubble, as an astronomer and as a scientist, it was a dream come true. And as an astronaut, the Hubble missions are premiere missions because Hubble is so important to science, so important to humanity, that it's just a very special event. But as an astronomer, it was sort of the holy grail of missions.

Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me.

The exciting results from the Hubble, other satellites and probes would not have been possible without innovative solutions to many technical problems.

The Hubble Telescope can see the farthest galaxies. The Webb Telescope will see the farthest stars.

Ironically, it is only when disaster strikes that the shuttle makes the headlines. Its routine flights attracted less media interest than unmanned probes to the planets or the images from the Hubble Telescope. The fate of Columbia (like that of Challenger in 1986) reminded us that space is still a hazardous environment.

The Hubble Space Telescope is more than remarkable. It has answered just so many of those fundamental questions that people have been asking about the cosmos since people were able to ask questions.

Hubble is the most important telescope in history after Galileo's first telescope.

I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.

I think probably the discoveries made by Hubble Space Telescope have been very dramatic, very amazing.

Hubble is absolutely unique; we must have a telescope in space to complement the very large telescopes on the ground.

The team at the Space Telescope Science Institute has a demonstrated record of meeting the high-performance challenges of operating the Hubble Space Telescope and preparing for the James Webb Space Telescope.

I kind of feel like I found my cause in life servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.

The Hubble images far surpassed anything taken by any telescope on Earth.

Hubble's law: There is a linear relationship between recessional velocity and galaxy distance. Namely, galaxies that are ever more distant are moving away from us with faster velocities!

While Roscoe made cups of coffee for Charlie Hubble and Finlay sat in the rosewood office

Hubble orbits high, outside Earth's atmosphere so it can see a wide spectrum of light our atmosphere blocks.

The whole Hubble program has just been a fabulous testament to the NASA science community and the NASA astronaut community.

A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral.

Because Hubble's been up so many years now, it's actually given us a window to things like... how planets' atmospheres actually change, evolve... over time.