20 years of Hubble

[dando]

All kinds of awesome. (http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1984100,00.html)

http://www.hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/13/full/

:cool:

-Kevin

[TravelGal]

Fantastic. If you love this and you get to LA, do not miss the Griffiths Observatory show. It makes the "Deep Field View" come alive. :thumbup:

[dando]

Fantastic. If you love this and you get to LA, do not miss the Griffiths Observatory show. It makes the "Deep Field View" come alive. :thumbup:

Maybe I'll tag along with Elmo when he visits Disneyland and SoCal next year. :D

-Kevin

[oddlycalm]

It makes the "Deep Field View" come alive. :thumbup:
I'll bet that's more than worth the price of admission. :thumbup:

oc

[stroker]

Have they ever done a Hubble Imax?

[JLMannin]

Have they ever done a Hubble Imax?

Yes. It's showing in IMAX theaters now. IMAX cameras went up for the last servicing mission to capture some of the footage.

[pchall]

Hubble imagery has changed the way an entire generation thinks about the universe. The return on the billions spent to build, orbit, maintain, and upgrade Hubble have been returned many times in both basic science and in education and cultural awaerness. Of course, Hubble would have been just junk in space from its launching without manned spaceflight.

[Insomniac]

Just wanted to add that the Hubble IMAX is in 2D and 3D. I haven't seen either, but a lot of the "educational" IMAX theaters are only 2D.

The images from Hubble are amazing. How they decided to take the images was brilliant (some are as we would see them, others are of light in frequencies we can't see).

[JLMannin]

The IMAX theater at the Indiana State Museum is showing it in 3D.