Experiencing Hubble – Understanding the Greatest Images of the Universe

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• Your guide is Professor David M. Meyer of Northwestern University, an award-winning educator and a frequent user of the Hubble Space Telescope File size: 3.96 GB Purchase Experiencing Hubble - Understanding the Greatest Images of the Universe courses at here with PRICE $195 $38 Experiencing Hubble - Understanding the Greatest Images of the Universe A few hundred miles above Earth, there is a remarkable telescope with a crystal-clear view across the universe.

• For two decades, the Hubble Space Telescope has been amassing discoveries that rival those of history's greatest scientists and explorers, making it the most important and productive scientific instrument ever built.

• Hide Full Description Although it never ventures beyond low-Earth orbit, Hubble's location high above the blurring effects of the atmosphere gives it an unrivaled vantage point for investigating phenomena throughout the cosmos: Comet crash: In 1994 Hubble witnessed a rare solar system cataclysm—a series of comet strikes on Jupiter, which produced Earth-sized plumes of vaporized debris in the giant planet's atmosphere.

• Star birth: Thanks to its incomparable resolution, Hubble has brought previously hidden stellar processes to light.

• Perhaps its most famous image shows a dramatic hotbed of new star creation in the Eagle Nebula.