For As Long As There Have Been People To Look Up The Night Sky Has Been A Source Of Wonder And Mystery In The Quest To Explore The Universe Our Greatest Ally Is The Hubble Telescope

In The Beginning There Was Light So Much Light That When The Universe Formed Every Corner Of Space Blazed Whitehotnbspbut It Didnt Last For 200 Million Years Darkness Reined Then The Light Was Reborn

Color Is One Of The Artists Essential Tools In A Painting Color Draws The Eye And Plays With Our Emotions In Astronomy It Serves A Different Purpose When Measured It Can Tell Us The Temperature Chemical Composition And Motion Of Astronomical Objects

For Most Of Human History The Night Sky Seemed Twodimensional A Marvelous Canvas That Stretched From Horizon To Horizon To Our Ancestors This Perspective Gave No Hint To The Universes True Depth

When The Hubble Telescope Looks Towards The Heavens It Finds Design On A Grand Scale Especially When It Zooms In On The Spiral Galaxies That Populate The Universe Around Us

Like The Vanishing Point In A Perspective Drawing The Core Of A Neighboring Galaxy Attracts Our Eyes And Makes Up Feel Like We Are Gazing Down A Deep Well With A Bright Shining Center But This Illusion Conceals An Even Deeper Truth