Images sure don't come straight out of space telescope looking press-release ready.

Europe's new space telescope, Cheops, won't be trying to find new planets.

There are many advantages to building a deep- space telescope on the moon.

SOFIA has a lot in common with the Hubble space telescope, they're similar sizes.

Try being only man on space telescope for four months.

The space telescope's legacy will live on, in other words.

The space telescope will observe bright stars that are already known to host planets.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Hubble space telescope, photographed in 1997.

The Kepler space telescope was proposed five times before being accepted and funded by Nasa.

Nasa's Hubble space telescope shows never-before-seen details of Jupiter.

Or that the Hubble space telescope of the Victorian era was built in Co Offaly?

That should give you a hint, Hubble is Nasa's largest and most versatile space telescope.

Images: 1) NASA's Chandra space telescope observed the X-rays coming from the Phoenix cluster.

On it was to appear the first ever image from Hubble, Nasa's powerful, sparkling space telescope.

In 2013 Gaia, the world's most powerful space telescope, was launched by the European Space Agency.

Roman was Nasa's first director of astronomy and a leading advocate for the Hubble space telescope.