People around the world can vote to select the next object the Hubble Space Telescope will view. In 1609, Galileo turned his telescope on the night sky for the first time. Now, 400 years later, your vote will help make the momentous decision of where to point modern astronomy’s most famous telescope. Choose from a list of objects Hubble has never observed before and enter a drawing for one of 100 new Hubble pictures of the winning object. The winning image will be released between April 2 and 5, during the IYA’s 100 Hours of Astronomy, a global astronomy event geared toward encouraging as many people as possible to experience the night sky.
Project owners + coordinators:
Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach
posted on Feb 06, 2009:
The descriptions of Hubble’s potential targets are nice but I’d like to inform my vote with the potential science data that could be gathered from imaging each of the targets. I mean, no matter which target is selected we’ll get a pretty picture – what else can we get with it?
posted on Apr 06, 2009:
The winning image was recently imaged by Hubble and is available in some very spectacular sizes here: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2009/14