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Fairhurst, Ciaran; Tyler, Paul – Primary Science, 2022
Space telescopes are some of the most precise and complicated machines ever built. Not only must they survive the harshness of space travel, but they also need to be incredibly accurate: misalignments by fractions of a millimetre can have huge effects on the quality of the images they capture. In 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope became the first…
Descriptors: Physics, Astronomy, Science Equipment, Spectroscopy