Myth vs Reality: What Hubble Sees
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This short video addresses the misconception that Hubble only sees in visible light.
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Above and Beyond: Abell 2744 Parallel Deep Field
00:30
Myth vs Reality: What Hubble Sees
00:40
Myth vs Reality: Gravity in Space
00:40
Above and Beyond: Galaxy Cluster Abell 2744
00:42
At a Glance: Gravitational Lensing
02:32
Insight Into: Gravitational Lensing
01:57
Above and Beyond: Galaxy Cluster Abell 68
00:43
Frontier Fields
Produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach.
All images, illustrations, and videos courtesy of NASA except:
· Gravitational lensing animations courtesy of G. Bacon & F. Summers (STScI) and NASA, ESA & L. Calçada
· Taurus constellation drawing from Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia by Johannes Hevelius, courtesy of the United States Naval Observatory
· Hubble orbit animation courtesy of G. Bacon (STScI)
· Hubble Space Telescope slewing animation courtesy of ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)
· Simulation of a lens passing over the Hubble Deep Field courtesy of ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)
· Background star field courtesy of A. Feild (STScI)
· Frontier Fields background star field images courtesy of the Digitized Sky Survey
· Chandra spacecraft illustration courtesy of Northrop Grumman Corporation
· Animation of the Hubble Space Telescope flying over Earth courtesy of ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser)
Written by Vanessa Thomas
Designed by Marc Lussier
Music courtesy of Associated Production Music
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Top left, a black and white picture of a minotaur. Top right, a color picture of stars.
Text, MYTH versus REALITY
Myth side. Text, The Hubble Space Telescope can only observe visible light.
Reality side. Text, In addition to helping us see the visible light of objects and materials in the universe more clearly, Hubble also can observe some wavelengths of infrared and ultraviolet light, which are invisible to the human eye. These other forms of light provide different information about what the universe is made of and how it changes over time.