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Tonight's Space Chats Features Opening of New Hubble Space Telescope Exhibit at Goddard

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Image of Galaxies portion of New Hubble exhibit at Visitor Center

The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center will debut its newest exhibit, "Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe" tonight, October 3rd at 7 p.m. in the Space Science Gallery. In addition, Space Chats will feature scientists of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) mission. All are invited to see presentations from Kevin Hartnett, a member of the HST technical management team, Dr. Kenneth G. Carpenter, HST operations project scientist and Dr. Malcolm B. Niedner, Jr., HST deputy senior project scientist.

The exhibit is brought to Goddard in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition Service. The "New Views of the Universe" exhibit contains images and data taken from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) of planets, galaxies, black holes and many other fascinating cosmic entities. The exhibit is comprised of spectacular backlit color images and contains numerous interactive displays. Using a computer, visitors will be able to hit Jupiter with a comet, attempt to put star clusters in order of age, use the Hubble Deep Field image to estimate the number of galaxies in the universe, match before and after images of colliding galaxies, find specific galaxy distances from Earth using Cepheid variable stars.

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NASA 's Mission:
*To understand and protect our home planet
*To explore the Universe and search for life
*To inspire the next generation of explorers
…as only NASA can

For a further details of the NASA mission, go to: http://www.nasa.gov/bios/vision.html

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