Explore some of the best Hubble Space Telescope images here in our gallery.
Before Hubble could start capturing incredible pictures of the universe, the telescope's first order of business was to test out its instruments and make sure everything was in working order. On the right is the first image Hubble ever took, which focused on the 8.2-magnitude star HD96755 in the star cluster NGC 3532. On the left is an image of the same patch of the sky taken by a ground-based telescope.
The image, taken using Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera and released May 20, 1990, demonstrate Hubble's improved visibility compared with observatories on Earth, where the"Even accounting for the aberration in Hubble's mirror, the space telescope's image offers more clarity than what was generally possible with ground-based observations," NASA said in a
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