National Geographic- Greatest Astronomer  

 
Volume I  Today’s Date: 5/10/18 
 
Greatest Astronomer  Galileo is helping many  The Hubble Spacecraft is a 
By: Morgan Hirschhorn people that want to study  giant telescope that takes 
  space or want to become an 
Have you ever looked up into  astronaut. Galileo has  pictures of the stars, moons, 
the night sky and wondered  and planets. “​Hubble has 
helped a lot of people who 
“What else is up there?” If so,  work at NASA because they  made more than 1.3 million 
you have wondered the same  wouldn’t have been able to  observations since its mission 
thing as Galileo Galilei.   travel to the moon or  began in 1990​” (​About the 
Galileo Galilei was very  discover some of the things  Hubble Space​). This shows 
interested in space so he  they did without using the  how helpful the Hubble has 
decided to build his own  telescope that Galileo made. 
telescope, so he can look at  We would barely know  been for people who are 
the star’s up close.   anything about outer space if  studying space. The Hubble 
He soon found out that he  it wasn’t for Galileo Galilei’s  Spacecraft was launched on 
could look farther than  invention of the telescope.   April 24, 1990 and has been 
stars--he was able to    orbiting the Earth since. The 
discover Jupiter's four moons. 
Hubble is supposed to stay in 
He also found out that the 
moon has many craters on  space for about 25-35 years 
them.   and then in 2020 the 
  spacecraft will no longer 
work.  
 

 
This is a picture taken from 
the Hubble spacecraft that is 
currently in space.  
 
 
   
  This is a picture of the Hubble 
spacecraft hovering in space 
This is the first model of 
taking pictures of everything 
Galileo’s telescope that he 
around it.  
made to look into space.