Who photographed the Hubble Space Telescope?

Hubble doesn't use color film (or any film at all) to create its images. Instead, it operates much like a digital camera, using what's called a CCD (charge-coupled device) to record incoming photons of light. [Spectacular Photos From The Revamped Hubble Space Telescope] Hubble's CCD cameras don't measure the color of the incoming light directly. read more

The Large Space Telescope was renamed the Hubble (HST) in honor of Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer who, among other things, determined that the universe extended beyond the borders of Milky Way. The world's first space telescope was then launched on April 24, 1990. read more