The Hubble Space Telescope

Today's progress in astronomy and science in general is driven by (at least) two factors. The first is technological:  the last few decades has witnessed an explosion in the construction of new astronomical observatories, both in space and on the ground.  These new tools allow much more detailed study of the Universe than ever was possible.  The Hubble Space Telescope is the premiere example of modern astronomical instrumentation, so we will review in this section some of its recent and spectacular results.

General Information Sites:

• http://www.stsci.edu/top.html - Homepage for the Hubble Space Telescope
• http://www.stsci.edu/stsci/org/Overview.html  - Discusses STSCI, the Organization responsible for running the HST
• http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/ - Public Information from STSCI about HST
• http://heritage.stsci.edu/ - Hubble Heritage Project (includes an image gallery)

Instrumentation for the Hubble Space Telescope:

• http://www.stsci.edu/hst/#instruments - Description of HST instruments
• http://www.stsci.edu/instruments/ - Links to Pages about HST instrumentation
• http://www.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/nicmos - NICMOS site
• http://www.stsci.edu/instruments/wfpc2/wfpc2_top.html - Wide Field Planetary Camera 2
• http://www.stsci.edu/ftp/instrument_news/FOC/topfoc.html  - Faint Object Camera

Images Taken by the Hubble Space Telescope:

• http://heritage.stsci/edu/public/gallery/galindex.html  - Heritage Image Gallery
• http://www.seds.org/hst/ - "The Best of the Hubble Space Telescope" Pictures
• http://oposite.stsci/edu/pubinfo/pictures.html - Includes archives of pictures
• http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/iams/html/pao/STS61.htm - Even more HST pictures