1 Counties and cities can charge an additional local sales tax of up to 4%, for a maximum possible combined sales tax of 8%. 2  Georgia has 961 special sales tax jurisdictions with local sales taxes in addition to the state sales tax. 3  Georgia has a lower state sales tax than 53.8% of states.
The telescope is named after the astronomer Edwin Hubble. Hubble's orbit outside the distortion of Earth's atmosphere allows it to take extremely high-resolution images with negligible background light. Hubble has recorded some of the most detailed visible-light images ever, allowing a deep view into space and time.ubble is the only telescope designed to be serviced in space by astronauts. After launch by Space Shuttle Discovery in 1990, four subsequent Space Shuttle missions repaired, upgraded, and replaced systems on the telescope.
Hubble floats above Earth; March 2002. Enlarge photo. Since the earliest days of astronomy, since the time of Galileo, astronomers have shared a single goal â to see more, see farther, see deeper. The Hubble Space Telescope's launch in 1990 sped humanity to one of its greatest advances in that journey.he Space Shuttle would be used to put the telescope in orbit and either return it to Earth for repairs and replacement instruments, or service it in space. In 1975, the European Space Agency began to work together with NASA on a plan that would eventually become the Hubble Space Telescope.