This week we’re replaying some of our favorite shows about planets and stars and galaxies and the people who have studied them. In this episode from May 2020, the story of an important if not technically perfect image: the first picture ever taken from the Hubble Space Telescope. Plus: an Irish bee enthusiast spends time at home building a beehive out of LEGO.

How Fixing the Hubble Spacecraft Works (How Stuff Works)

30 years of Hubble: Three decades of space wonder began with an underwhelming image that proved extremely important (Independent UK)

Un-bee-lievable! Beekeeper builds fully functioning beehive entirely out of LEGOs (Fox 6 Now)

Our Patreon backers are like the Hubble Space Telescope of backers: the best

Episode: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coolweirdawesome/episodes/Astronomy-Week-The-Hubble-Telescopes-First-Space-Photo-Was-Kind-Of-Blurry-e2n96c3

Podcast: http://www.coolweirdawesome.com