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's second huge advantage is its ability to observe near-infrared and ultraviolet light, which is otherwise filtered away by the atmosphere before it can reach ground-based telescopes. Find out more about the spacecraft Hubble and see images of it in flight. Hubble has made many contributions to science since its launch in 1990. With 10 000 scientific papers attributed to it, Hubble is by some measures the most productive scientific instrument ever built. This section outlines the background to some of the key areas of research Hubble has contributed to.