What telescope is named after Edwin Hubble?

The telescope named after Edwin Hubble is the Hubble Space Telescope. It is a NASA space observatory built with contributions from the European Space Agency and launched into low Earth orbit in 1990.

Hubble was named in honor of Edwin Hubble, whose observations helped establish that galaxies exist beyond the Milky Way and that the universe is expanding. By operating above Earth's atmosphere, the telescope avoids atmospheric blurring and can observe ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light that is partly blocked or distorted from the ground.

The telescope's first major images were impaired by a flaw in its primary mirror, which had been ground to the wrong shape. Astronauts corrected the problem during a 1993 servicing mission by installing corrective optics and upgraded instruments. Later servicing missions extended Hubble's scientific life.

Hubble is often confused with the James Webb Space Telescope. Webb is a newer observatory optimized mainly for infrared astronomy, while Hubble remains especially famous for high-resolution visible-light images and long-term studies of galaxies, stars, nebulae, and cosmic expansion.