You Won't Believe Your Eyes! Hubble's Images Still Shoсk Astronomers

What do you see? Most likely, a blank region of the night sky. But don’t believe your eyes. You’re looking at thousands of glowing objects. However, the only way to see them was using Hubble. In twenty twelve, scientists focused the telescope’s mirror at a fixed point and left it in that position for ten days. Hubble kept taking pictures, which were then combined. As a result, millions of ancient galaxies appeared in the photo. They would be impossible to see even with a ground-based telescope. And that’s not the only time Hubble made people doubt what they see.

However, its time is gone. Hubble’s official program was completed in the summer of twenty twenty-one. After thirty-one years in orbit. Although it’s still operational, the machine will have to de-orbit. And since Hubble cost hundreds of times more than any ground-based telescope, scientists and governments are debating whether such expensive projects are even necessary.

In this video, we’ll find out: can images taken by Hubble turn out to be a lie? What’s the last thing it’ll see? And most importantly, do we need such expensive telescopes in the future?