See What Hubble Sees

Simulates the spectacular Smithsonian experience

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NASA says the Hubble Space Telescope collects enough images every day to fill five encyclopedias. Don't you wish you could just go up there and look through the Hubble for a while?

Now, anyone with access to the Web can view the best pictures collected by the Hubble on an Internet portal designed by NASA to simulate the amazing Smithsonian-Lockheed exhibit currently touring the country.

The new Web site Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe, was developed by the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), Baltimore, MD, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, to highlight the contributions of the Hubble's tireless observations to astronomy.

Since entering orbit in 1990, the Hubble has sent home unprecedented views of the Universe, not visible to even the most powerful earth-based telescopes. Using actual Hubble images, the Web site takes you on an exploration of Martian storms, colliding galaxies, the life cycle of stars, the most distant objects in the Universe, and even a massive black hole.

Optical Time Machine - All telescopes look back in time. When we gaze at the stars of our own Milky Way galaxy, we see them as they were thousands of years ago. Light from the most distant objects photographed by the Hubble took billions of years to reach its lens. The Web site's Space/Time Location exhibit illustrates the immense dimensions of the Universe.

Employing the latest multi-media Web technology, the new Web site provides in depth information on the Hubble from how it works, to its past and future. Visitors can even use their mouse to maneuver a 3-D model of the Hubble. 

Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe is a special feature of HubbleSite, Hubble's official online home and the Web's most comprehensive source of Hubble news, pictures, information and educational resources. Both Web sites were developed by STScI, which manages the science program for the Hubble Space Telescope and is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. for NASA, under contract with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.

If you could, would you spend a month on the International Space Station? Take a ride on the Shuttle? Go to Mars?

The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. 

 

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