In 1998, a few years after the launch and the first mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, a number of astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute established the Hubble Heritage project. The main goal, among others, was to promote the visual qualities of Hubble images balanced with their science content. Over the years since, Heritage... Continue Reading →
Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder
This image, the M31 Deep Field, may not look like much. It doesn't have the bold colors and dynamic composition of many Hubble images. Yet it's one of my favorite images because of what we can see if we look a little harder. In fact it shows nothing less than the entire sweep of the... Continue Reading →