{"id":4290,"date":"2026-04-24T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4290"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:01:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:01:45","slug":"hubble-space-telescope-was-deployed-in-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4290","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Space Telescope Celebrates Its 36th Birthday Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15224\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15224\" class=\"wp-image-15224 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Hubble-e1743961899654.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"101\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hubble Space Telescope<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Hubble Space Telescope was deployed from the Space Shuttle <em>Discovery<\/em> in 1990<\/strong>. Unfortunately the lenses were not working properly until a shuttle team could repair it in 1993. It was modified again in 1997 and once more in 2009. Because the telescope is beyond earth\u2019s atmosphere, it can detect images seven to ten times better than any earth scope. The size of a school bus, the telescope continues to send back amazing images of our universe. Children can check out all the Hubble resources at: <a href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/gallery\/<\/a>. NASA has a special site to celebrate Hubble&#8217;s birthday: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/goddard\/what-did-hubble-see-on-your-birthday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hubble Birthday<\/a>. There <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">you<\/span><\/strong> can enter <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">your<\/span><\/strong> birthday to see what Hubble saw that day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hubble Space Telescope was deployed from the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1990. Unfortunately the lenses were not working properly until a shuttle team could repair it in 1993. It was modified again in 1997 and once more in 2009. Because the telescope is beyond earth\u2019s atmosphere, it can detect images seven to ten times better <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4290' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4681,5496,2696,2697,2698],"class_list":["post-4290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4681","tag-april-24","tag-hubble-space-telescope","tag-space-shuttle-discovery","tag-telescope","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4290"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30570,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions\/30570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}