Spacetelescope.org is the European Homepage For The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This site contains information about new discoveries made by the space telescope. Page includes technical data, astronomical photos, and news releases. While visiting this great site you will find heaps of categories including: news, images, photos, goodies, science, kids and teachers, and many more interesting topics. Some of the main features of the finished Spacetelescope.org site are:
• The complete collection of ESA and NASA Hubble images
• Huge volumes of animations and films (~35 GB)
• Optimal image quality (best available tiff/jpeg files, sizes up to 250 MB)
• Interactive flash applications and
• Last, but not least, a well-functioning hardware, software and network infrastructure.
One of the fantastic image is “Starry Night”, Vincent van Gogh’s famous painting in this site. But it is renowned for its bold whorls of light sweeping across a raging night sky. Although this image of the heavens came only from the artist’s restless imagination, a new picture from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope bears remarkable similarities to the van Gogh work, complete with never-before-seen spirals of dust swirling across trillions of kilometres of interstellar space. This image, obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on February 8, 2004, is Hubble’s latest view of an expanding halo of light around a distant star, named V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon). The illumination of interstellar dust comes from the red. Check it out for yourself.

Sunday, July 20th, 2008 at 1:55 am | by Kur-nia-one |