Happy #Hubble30!
Today is the 30th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope!
Be sure to tune in this afternoon (Friday 4/24) for McAuliffe-Shepard's first Facebook Live event: a virtual celebration of #Hubble30! Just log in to facbook.com/MSDiscoveryCenter and click on “Our Story.” Itinerary for the virtual event is as follows:
--2:00 to 2:30: our Education Coordinator will be presenting on general Hubble info and some more details about this special image
--2:30 to 3:00: our Visitor Services Director will be speaking about Hubble's three-decade history of bringing the universe to us
--3:00 to 3:30: our Education Coordinator will return for a group activity
Log on for one or all of the segments…We can't wait to celebrate with you!
As part of the celebrations, NASA just released the never-before-seen Hubble image.
From hubblesite.org: In this Hubble portrait, the giant red nebula (NGC 2014) and its smaller blue neighbor (NGC 2020) are part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, located 163,000 light-years away. The image is nicknamed the "Cosmic Reef," because the nebulas resemble an undersea world.
The Discovery Center was selected by the Space Telescope Science Institute as one of the sites to host this special event and unveil the never-before-seen image. When we reopen to the public, we will have an oversize banner of this image on display in the museum—be sure to check it out!
