Your birth year
2006
Hubble Space Telescope
1990Space
Hubble Space Telescope is 16 years older than you
It's from 1990, before you were born.
- Launch
- 1990
- Type
- Space telescope
- Orbit
- Low Earth orbit
About
As of 2026, it's 36 years old.
The Hubble Space Telescope launched in 1990 and became one of the most productive scientific instruments ever built.
Its images made cosmic time feel visible, showing galaxies, nebulae, and deep fields far older than human history.
Hubble Space Telescope through the years
1990
1990
Hubble launched
The telescope entered orbit aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.
1993
1993
First servicing mission
Astronauts corrected Hubble optics and transformed its results.
You were born — 2006
