Deployed April 25, 1990 from the space shuttle Discovery, the Hubble Space Telescope is one of the largest and most complex satellites ever built. Hubble’s deployment culminated more than 20 years of research by NASA and other scientists. The telescope is named for American astronomer Edwin P. Hubble, who first discovered that countless island cities of stars and galaxies dwell far beyond our Milky Way. 

The Hubble Space Telescope is our window seat to the universe. Hubble has provided us with front row seats to fragments of a comet slamming into Jupiter and stars being born in huge craggy towers of cold dark gas.

The importance of those discoveries parallels the significance of messages which have been at the core, and at the periphery of Quaker thinking.  Where the Hubble explores the depth of our physical universe, so do these messages open a way to our spiritual universe.