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By BETTY DEBNAM
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Hubble Is Going Up
The Super Space Telescope
As we go up in space, the Earth's
atmosphere, or air, gets thinner,
until there is no air at all. The
atmosphere goes up about 100
miles.
For hundreds of years, scientists
have studied the universe by
looking through the atmosphere.
They have gotten a blurred view.
The clouds, the weather and the
glow of lights from cities cause
problems. Some of the rays from
the stars never reach Earth.
Soon NASA will
.~ launch the Hubble space
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telescope. It is named
after a famous
American astronomer.
Hubble will be placed into orbit
about 380 miles above the Earth.
This is above the Earth's
atmosphere.
Because the atmosphere is no
longer in the way, we will be able
to get a much clearer picture of
space than ever before.
HUIIIIlE SPACETELESCOPE
Putting Hubble into orbit
Radio Antenna
Hubble is about
the size of a bus.
It looks like a
silver tower and
weighs 24,000
pounds. The
workers wear
masks and gloves
and special
coveralls. It's
important to keep
the mirrors clean.
This picture
shows Hubble
before the bottom
part was attached.
1. To place Hubble into orbit, the
space shuttle will fly higher than it
ever has before. The 43-foot-Iong
telescope fits into the cargo bay.
2. It will take about five hours to
deploy, or release, it into orbit.
Astronauts inside the shuttle will
operate the SO-foot-Iong robot arm.
Hubble is the largest space telescope ever
built. It took 13 years to get it ready for
launch.
3. After the solar panels and
antennae are extended, and if
everything checks out, the arm will
release Hubble into space. Next, the
shuttle will back away for 40 miles.
Then the door that has been
protecting the telescope's mirrors
will open. If everything is OK, the
shuttle will be on its way and Hubble
will begin its checkout period.
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Z as in Zephyrosaurus
Zephyrosaurus ...
• was small, thin and speedy.
• moved on its two hind legs and may have had
five fingers on each hand and four toes on each
foot.
• had short arms and long legs. Its tail
was long and stiff. Its head was about 6
inches long.
• had top and bottom teeth that
ground against one another, keeping its
teeth sharp and also grinding them down.
As old teeth wore out, new ones grew in ih:i~is
from underneath to replace them.
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Dinosaur
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storing food alongside the teeth on each
series.
side of its head.
Pronounced: ZEFF-urr-oh-SAWR-us.
Meaning: "west wind reptile."
When it lived: about 113 million to 103 million
years ago.
What it ate: plants.
Where bones have been found: Montana.
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The Mini Page thanks the Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of
Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, for help with this series.
Meet Astronotner Edwin P. Hubble
Our
largest
space
telescope
is named
after Edwin P. Hubble.
Dr. Hubble was one of our
most important astronomers.
He studied the universe
beyond our galaxy.
He discovered that our
universe is expanding, or
spreading out, in all
directions.
Edwin Hubble lived from 1889 to 1953.
He spent most of his career at Mount
Wilson Observatory in California.
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Dr. Hubble was born in
Missouri. He received a
scholarship to the University
of Chicago. He was an
excellent student and athlete.
He turned down a chance to
become a pro boxer to continue
his studies at Oxford University
in England. He became a lawyer.
Later he went back to the
University of Chicago to
study astronomy. Another
great interest of his was
exploring caves.
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Telescopes collect light over a
large area and concentrate it on a
smaller area.
1. Light comes down the tube.
2. It hits a large primary mirror,
about 8 feet in diameter (across).
This mirror concentrates the light
onto the smaller secondary mirror.
3. Light is reflected off the
smaller mirror through a hole in
the larger mirror . . .
4. . .. into the scientific
instruments.
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How it works
What's to see?
Hubble
is designed
to last for
about 15
years. It is
made in
separate
pieces to
make its upkeep easier. Astronauts
will return to space to repair it.
• asteroids are chunks of rock
that can be less than a mile or as
big as 500 miles in diameter.
A view of Hubble
with its mirror
door open. Since
the sun's strong
light would
damage the
telescope, it
must always
point away from
the sun when
the door is open.
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Getting the data
down
1. The data from the science
instruments are sent in digital form
(Is and Os) to the spacecraft's computers, where they are radioed ...
2. to a relay satellite 22,300 miles
above the Earth ...
3 . to a ground tracking station in
New Mexico ...
4. to NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center in Maryland ...
5. to the Space Telescope Science
Institute in Baltimore. Here, the
results are stored and turned over
to astronomers, who will study
them and let us know what they
discover.
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Getting the cotntnands up
The control room at Goddard.
Controllers at the Goddard Space
Flight Center use computers to
send commands to Hubble telling
it where to point. The telescopepointing is very accurate. It can be
compared to sending a light beam
from Washington, D.C., to New
York City and hitting a dime right
on target! Hubble can hold a
position even though it is
traveling 17,500 miles per hour.
• black holes are stars that
have collapsed and no longer
shine. The pull of their gravity
is super strong.
• comets are like big, dirty
snowballs. When they get close
to the sun, they start to melt,
leaving behind tails that can be
millions of miles long. Hubble
will be up in time to give us a
good look at the comet Austin.
This comet might be the
brightest we have seen in 10
years.
• galaxy is a collection of 100
billion stars. There are billions
of galaxies in our universe. Our
galaxy is the Milky Way.
• planets are heavenly bodies
that revolve around the sun.
• pulsars are tiny and heavy
stars that spin up to hundreds of
times per second. They could be
the remains of dead stars.
• nebulae are huge clouds of
gas and dust.
• quasars. One quasar can be
as bright as a whole galaxy.
Through a telescope, however, it
looks like one star.
• stars are giant glowing balls
of gas. Our sun is a star.
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lIRA look back
~ in titne
When we look up into the
skies, we are looking back in
time. When you see the sun, you
are seeing it as it looked eight
minutes ago, since it takes the
sun's light eight minutes to
reach the Earth.
When we use Hubble to look
at some of the faint objects it
can observe, we can be looking
back in time billions of years.
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Teacher's
Guide
For use by teachers and parents at home and at
school.
For use with issue: The Super Space Telescope
Main idea: This issue is about the Hubble space telescope. The following is a list
of activities to be used with this issue. They are listed in order of difficulty, with
the easier pre-reader assignments listed first . Ask the children to do the
following:
1. Draw a picture of yourself dressed as an astronaut.
2 . Pretend your class is a group of scientists working with the Hubble space
telescope . Talk about what you hope to see and what you are studying .
3. Why is the Hubble such an exciting project? What do you think it would be
like to work in space? What do you think it would take to have a career as an
astronaut?
4 . Write a letter applying to be an astronaut working with Hubble .
5. Circle all the numbers . Which is the biggest? Which is the smallest? Which
measures a distance? Which is a dollar amount? Which is a measure of time?
6. Find the following words : telescope, concentrate, orbit, secondary, cargo,
target, blurred, galaxy, deploy, primary, atmosphere, commands. Define and
make up a new sentence for each one.
7. Look in your newspaper for articles about NASA and space.
8. What do you think our study of space will be like when you are grown?
What do you think we will know by then? What will we be studying? Do you
think anyone will be able to visit the moon?
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