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The 17th-anniversary celebration featured a panorama of part of the Carina Nebula, and a collection of images selected from that area. [4] In its 17 years of exploring the heavens, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made nearly 800,000 observations and snapped nearly 500,000 images of more than 25,000 celestial objects.
James Webb, an administrator from 1961 to 1968, put the program into effect.Webb wanted to use art to capture the emotions and importance of what NASA was doing. [5] James Dean (an artist and NASA employee) became the head of the program with the help of Hereward Lester Cooke, a curator of National Galleys. [5]
A Beautiful Planet was written, produced, and directed by Toni Myers, who has created seven other space-themed IMAX films [41] including Hubble 3D and Space Station 3D. The film was premiered in Manhattan on April 16, 2016, and was released in cinemas on April 29, 2016.
The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by either Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon.Viewed from around 29,400 km (18,300 mi) from Earth's surface, [1] a cropped and rotated version has become one of the most reproduced images in history.
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first space telescope, but it is one of the largest and most versatile, renowned as a vital research tool and as a public relations boon for astronomy.
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Some images also contain indications of chemical composition. All measures used on the pictures are first defined in the first few images using physical references. Following is a list of all the images contained in the Voyager Golden Record together with a description of the nature of the image and what annotations were included in them, and ...
In 2016, vehicle attacks internationally represented more than half of all terrorism-related deaths that year, according to one researcher's analysis of the open-source Global Terrorism Database