NASA’s Hubble Telescope

Context: Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a dwarf galaxy in a globular cluster which is only 30 million light-years away.

The researchers determined that this galaxy — nicknamed Bedin 1, after discovery team leader L. R. Bedin of the INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova in Italy — is a “spheroidal dwarf” just 3,000 light-years wide.

About the Hubble Space Telescope:

1. The Hubble Space Telescope is a large telescope in space. NASA launched Hubble in 1990.
2. It was built by the United States space agency NASA, with contributions from the European Space Agency.
3. Hubble is the only telescope designed to be serviced in space by astronauts.
4. Expanding the frontiers of the visible Universe, the Hubble Space Telescope looks deep into space with cameras that can see across the entire optical spectrum from infrared to ultraviolet.

Sources: the hindu.