We all know what it's like to wander outside and look up at the night sky.

On a clear night, when you can see all of the stars perfectly, it's so easy to feel small.

It makes you wonder, what's out there, beyond what we can see.

The Hubble Space Telescope has helped us answer that question over the last 30 years, revealing that reality is often stranger than fiction.

We've seen the births and deaths of stars, and we've found answers to questions we'd never even thought to ask before.

We've learned all of this in incredible detail. By looking back in time.

Hubble is like a time machine in the sense that we can look farther and farther out into the

universe at these fainter and fainter, more distant galaxies.

And by doing that, we're really looking back in time,

because it has taken time for that light to get to us from these stars and galaxies.

That's Jennifer Wiseman.

She's the Senior Project Scientist for Hubble and says that the telescope is achieving more

than scientists originally expected. Hubble has... the senior project scientist for Hubble and says that the telescope is achieving more than

scientists originally expected. Hubble has recently contributed to the determination that the

expansion of the universe is, in fact, accelerating. That was unexpected. Hubble has become the

pioneering telescope in analyzing the atmospheres of exoplanets.

Hubble has found the likely presence of water and moons around other planets using interesting,

innovative techniques. That was really not something Hubble was originally designed for.

So we're using Hubble now for kinds of science we did not originally. that was really not something Hubble was originally designed for.

So we're using Hubble now for kinds of science we did not originally anticipate.

And after all this time, the discoveries we get from Hubble every day are still knocking us back,

telling us more about the nature of our universe and its origins.

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