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Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
(Phone: 301/286-0039)

September 30, 2003 - Release: 03-90

NEW HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE EXHIBIT OPENS AT GODDARD

The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center will debut
its newest exhibit, "Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the
Universe" on Friday, October 3 at 7 p.m. in the Space Science
Gallery.

The exhibit is being brought to the Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, Maryland, in collaboration with the Smithsonian
Institute Traveling Exhibition Service.

The "New Views of the Universe" exhibit contains images and data
taken from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) of planets,
galaxies, black holes, and many other fascinating cosmic entities.
The exhibit is comprised of spectacular backlit color images
and contains numerous interactive displays. Using a computer,
visitors will be able to "hit" Jupiter with a comet, attempt to
put star clusters in order of age, use the Hubble Deep Field image to
estimate the number of galaxies in the universe, match before and
after images of colliding galaxies, find specific galaxy
distances from Earth using Cepheid variable stars. Using an infrared
camera, visitors can also learn about the different wavelengths of
light by taking pictures of their hand in visible and infrared
light. Numerous videos will be shown including, Shoemaker-Levy (a
comet collision with Jupiter), Star Life Cycle Animations, Age of
the Universe and the Hubble Deep Field.

"The exhibit is an outstanding venue for presenting the
spectacular images of the universe and the associated discoveries
made with the Hubble Space Telescope," said James Jeletic,
HST Science Operations Manager at the Goddard Space Flight Center."
Even though I see these images every day, it is inspirational to
me when I see them enlarged and illuminated as they appear in this
exhibit. We are fortunate that people in this area of the
country, including those individuals who devote their
careers to operating and enhancing an opportunity to share this
experience."

Some of the more famous HST images in the exhibit include the Eagle
Nebula and the Hubble Deep Field that are rendered as large backlit
transparencies (six feet high by 9.5 feet wide). The spiral galaxy
NGC 4414 and a montage of our solar system planets (Mercury
excluded) also appear on their own large backlit transparencies.
Other well-known images such as the Antennae Galaxies, Supernova
1987A, and the comet Shoemaker-Levy collision with
Jupiter appear on various light boxes. There are also displays of
images and data on black holes, gravitational lenses, star
clusters, and more.

"The exhibit magnificently displays and describes the wonders
of the night sky that call for us to explore them," said Kevin
Hartnett, a member of the HST Technical Management Team at
Goddard. "It also celebrates the achievements of NASA's Hubble
Space Telescope and the many individuals here at Goddard and
elsewhere who have labored so hard to make it the productive
scientific observatory that it is."

The exhibit originally opened at the Adler Planetarium and
Astronomy Museum in Chicago in June 2000. Other tours have
included: Space Center Houston, Kennedy Space Center in Fla., the
Strategic Air Command Museum in Ashland in Nebraska, and the North
Carolina State Museum of Natural Science in Raleigh. Various
versions of the "New Views of the Universe" exhibit will travel to
science museums, major planetaria, and space centers through 2005.

"Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe" has been
organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition
Service and the Space Telescope Science Institute, operated for
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration by the Association
of the Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. The exhibition
and its educational programs have been made possible through the
generous support of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration Offices of Space Science and Education in
Washington, D.C. and Lockheed Martin, Bethesda, Md.
 




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