— The Hubble Space Telescope has been revealing the building blocks of the cosmos for more than 35 years. Now, it is its turn to be made up of toy bricks.

The LEGO Icons Hubble Space Telescope is a 1,252-piece kit aimed at adult LEGO fans. Set to be released on Aug. 1 for $139.99, the set creates a desktop model roughly to scale with the included astronaut minifigure.

"This detailed replica captures the essence of the legendary observatory that helped reshape our understanding of the cosmos," reads the set's description on LEGO's website.

The 12.5-inch-tall (32 cm) model features an aperture door that opens and closes, solar arrays and antennas that can be positioned and a display stand with an informative plaque. The telescope's exterior panels can also be removed to show into instrument bay with depictions of the gyroscopes and primary and secondary mirrors that are how the Hubble works.

Launched aboard the space shuttle in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope gained initial fame for an unfortunate flaw in its primary mirror. Astronauts on the first of five servicing flights corrected the observatory's vision and later crews upgraded the telescope's systems and astronomical instruments. As such, the Hubble has remained at the forefront of expanding humanity's knowledge about the universe.

Even as other space telescopes have gone into service, the Hubble has held a special place in the public's attention. The orbiting observatory serves as a proxy for our own eyes, capturing stunning images in the same wavelength that humans see. And its history has offered a rare overlap between space science missions and human spaceflight.

The model's display base includes miniature versions of some the Hubble's most iconic views, including the "Pillars of Creation" in the Eagle Nebula, the Whirlpool Galaxy and the Butterly Nebula. The included plaque includes NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) logos, the dimensions of the real spacecraft and the dates of its servicing missions. It also displays an emblem commemorating the Hubble telescope's first 35 years.

The included minifigure is absent a NASA insignia, but is decorated wearing an extravehicular mobility unit (EMU), the type of U.S. spacesuit worn during the Hubble servicing missions. Part of the build includes creating a specialized power tool ("pistol grip") used by the crews to access the interior of the telescope.

(If enthusiasts add anything to the build, it may be a second minifigure. All of the spacewalks to work on Hubble involved two astronauts at a time.)

The LEGO Icons Hubble Space Telescope (set no. 11382) is the company's third kit to include the space scope. The two earlier releases (LEGO Discovery Space Shuttle - STS-31, no. 7470 from 2003 and LEGO Icons NASA Space Shuttle Discovery, no. 10283 released in 2021) both had smaller, less detailed models of the Hubble, as the observatory was secondary to the sets' winged orbiters.

In the years between the two earlier sets, a fan-designed Hubble submitted to the LEGO Ideas website received the 10,000 votes required for a review, but was not selected for production as a retail product. LEGO also displayed brick-built mosaic murals based on real images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope at some of its retail stores.