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Subject: TOURBUS -- 22 OCTOBER 1998 -- HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE PICTURES
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TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP(S): HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE PICTURES
TODAY'S TOURBUS ADDRESS(ES):
http://www.improb.com/posters/mars-big.jpg
http://www.stsci.edu/
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/1998/18/
greatest-hits-gallery.html
http://heritage.stsci.edu/public/index.html
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On with the show ...
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HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE PICTURES
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When I first read the news.com announcement earlier this week that
some of the Hubble Space Telescope's "most arresting images" are now
available on the Web, my response was: "DUH! Those images have been
online for YEARS!" Actually, to be completely honest, my FIRST
response was to remember an image I saw in 1995 in the Annuls of
Improbable Research titled "Mars as seen by the Hubble Space
Telescope" at
http://www.improb.com/posters/mars-big.jpg .
Fortunately, Hubble's optics were repaired during a series of space
walks in December of 1993, and the telescope has been returning
stunning images ever since. Since 1996, many of Hubble's images have
been available on the Space Telescope Science Institute homepage at
http://www.stsci.edu/
Located at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, the
Space Telescope Science Institute (ST ScI) is responsible for
conducting and coordinating all of the science operations of the
Hubble Space Telescope. ST ScI's homepage is a jumble of hyperlinks,
but you can find pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope by clicking
on the word "Pictures" on the ST ScI homepage or by pointing your Web
browser to
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html
The Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures archives are divided by
year, but this page also gives you links to a gallery of pictures
organized by subject, a gallery of planetary nebulae images, and even
a gallery of Comet/Jupiter encounter pictures. The folks at the ST
ScI have also created something called "HST's Greatest Hits Updated:
1990-1998 Picture Gallery" which contains a dozen of the telescope's
most famous images. You can find this gallery by clicking on the
appropriate link, or by pointing your Web browser to:
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/1998/18/greatest-hits-gallery.html .
Browsing through the yearly galleries on the Hubble Space Telescope
Public Pictures archive page is easy. Pick a year you are interested
in, click on a Hubble news event from that year (for example "Hubble
Finds Many Bright Clouds on Uranus"), and you are taken to a page that
offers:
- Low resolution color GIF and JPEG images from Hubble of that
particular celestial object or event
- High resolution (300 dpi) black-and-white and color JPEG images
- A full-color Hubble Space Telescope News press release in PDF
format
- An ASCII text file of the press release's copy (READ THESE!)
My only complaint about the yearly galleries is that the 1998 archive
is organized differently than the earlier archives. To get to the
images in the 1998 archives, you have to click on a particular Hubble
news event, then click on the image that appears on the next page.
This extra step might be confusing to some.
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THE HUBBLE HERITAGE PROJECT
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If all of this information is too much for you, you might want to
check out the Hubble Heritage Project homepage instead. The project
plans to release one new Hubble image a month and their homepage can
be found at
http://heritage.stsci.edu/public/index.html .
Right now, the Project's homepage offers images of Saturn, NGC 7742 (a
Seyfert 2 active galaxy), SGR-1 (the Sagittarius Star Cloud), and NGC
7635 (the Bubble Nebula). The project also offers some rather
interesting descriptions of each of these, but you have to click
around to find the descriptions (hint: ignore the pictures on the
Hubble Heritage homepage and click on the words instead).
That's it for this week. Have a safe and happy weekend.
TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP(S): HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE PICTURES
TODAY'S TOURBUS ADDRESS(ES):
http://www.improb.com/posters/mars-big.jpg
http://www.stsci.edu/
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/1998/18/
greatest-hits-gallery.html
http://heritage.stsci.edu/public/index.html
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