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The Hubble Space Telescope and 30 years that transformed our view of the universe

A partnership between NASA and the European Space Agency, the Hubble Space Telescope, which left Earth 30 years ago today on April 24, 1990, has — as the saying goes — changed the way we see the universe. It has discovered evidence of supermassive black holes at galaxy centers, produced the first observations of disks around young stars, tracked storms on gas giants, revealed that the universe’s expansion is accelerating, and, of course, taken incredible portraits of the cosmos.

But the Hubble Space Telescope is also a very human endeavor.