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John McGauley
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posted 01-25-2010 01:14 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for John McGauley   Click Here to Email John McGauley     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
If you are in or near northern Indiana, this exhibit is a must-see.

"Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe" is an exhibit on loan from NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, showing at Science Central in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

It opens this Saturday, Jan. 30, and runs through August 29. For more information and opening day information (including presentations by NASA personnel), visit the Science Central website.

About the Exhibit:

This unique traveling exhibition contains images taken from the Hubble Space Telescope of planets, galaxies, black holes, and many other fascinating cosmic entities. Filled with numerous interactive displays, visitors will be able to "hit" Jupiter with a comet, attempt to put star clusters in order of age, estimate the number of galaxies in the universe, match before - and after images of colliding galaxies, use stars to calculate specific galaxy distances from Earth, and use an infrared camera to learn about the different wavelengths of light. The exhibition is an outstanding venue for presenting the spectacular images of the universe and the associated discoveries made with the Hubble Space Telescope.

For more information about the exhibit itself, visit the Space Telescope Science Institute website.

space4u
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posted 01-25-2010 07:15 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for space4u   Click Here to Email space4u     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks for the tip John. I will be driving by later in Feb. on the way to Chicago so hopefully I'll be able to see it!

-Marcy

John McGauley
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posted 01-26-2010 07:24 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for John McGauley   Click Here to Email John McGauley     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Marcy, happy to do it! If you make it here, drop me a line. I'm on the board of that particular museum and I'd love to take you on the grand tour.

John

space4u
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posted 01-26-2010 06:11 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for space4u   Click Here to Email space4u     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks so much for that offer John. Will do.

-Marcy

John McGauley
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posted 01-29-2010 01:14 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for John McGauley   Click Here to Email John McGauley     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
For anyone interested in this exhibit opening, there will be several presentations by NASA staff involved in HST and the James Webb Telescope. The schedule is:

11:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Jonathan Gardner: A Scientific Revolution: The Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes

12:30-1 p.m. Jonathan Gardner: A Scientific Revolution: The Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes

1:30 p.m.-2 p.m. Russ Werneth: Hubble Space Telescope: The Engineering Behind the Science

2:30 p.m.-3 p.m. Richard Lynch: Engineering of the James Webb Space Telescope

3:30 p.m.-4 p.m. Russ Werneth: Hubble Space Telescope: The Engineering Behind the Science

All times are CT (US)

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