Hubble Legacy Archive. Hubble's Hidden Treasures 2012. Since 1990, Hubble has made more than a million observations. We feature many of these on spacetelescope.org, and the most stunning are in our Top 100 gallery and iPad app. But there are thousands of pictures in Hubble’s science archive that have only been seen by a few scientists. We call these images Hubble’s hidden treasures — stunning images of astronomical phenomena that have never been seen and enjoyed by the public.
Every week, we search the archive for hidden treasures, process the scientific data into attractive images and publish them as the Hubble Picture of the Week. But the archive is so vast that nobody really knows the full extent of what Hubble has observed. This is where you come in. Searching Hubble’s archive for hidden treasures is a lot of fun, and it’s pretty straightforward, even if you don’t have advanced knowledge.
Hubble’s Hidden Treasures 2012: Find and tweak Hubble observations using a set of simple online tools. Read more: SkyServer DR7 Tools for Visual Exploration. The visual exploration tools built for the SkyServer make it easy to visualize and explore detailed astronomical data in regions of the sky covered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. One can specify regions of interest by central position and size. An underlying web service then combines the relevant images to form a JPEG mosaic* at the requested wide range of resolutions. One can overlay additional useful information, including: boundaries of survey fields and aperture plates, outlines of individual objects and data quality masks, and locations of photometric and spectroscopic objects.
The tools can also search for lists of known objects, provide links for detailed information, and formulate new database queries. *Note: The Finding Chart, Navigate and Image Lists tools build mosaics on the fly by overlapping SDSS fields that may or may not belong to different runs. Atmospheric phenomena.
CICLOPS - Image Gallery. Cassini Imaging Diary. Photopic Sky Survey. Photopic Sky Survey. NASA's Planetary Photojournal. Human Space Flight Web Gallery. Photo Album. The Aurora (Borealis and Australis) Pool. NASA Spitzer Space Telescope.
The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Image Resources at the NSSDC. General Image Services Specialized Image Services Planetary Data Visualization Visual and Technical Arts Laboratory Other NASA Data Archive/Service Centers Ames Research Center Neurolab Online Dryden Flight Research Center Dryden Aircraft Photo Collection Goddard Space Flight Center Jet Propulsion Laboratory Johnson Space Center JSC Digital Image Collection Glenn Research Center Expendable rockets and launches Marshall Space Flight Center Global Hydrology and Climate Center NASA Headquarters Great Images in NASA NASA Scientific and Technical Information Program NASA Image Exchange Planetary Data System Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach Other Resources Department of Defense Naval Research Laboratory: Clementine images Department of Interior United States Geological Service: Clementine images European Southern Observatory ESO Photo Gallery National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Geophysical Data Center Geologic Hazards National Science Foundation Smithsonian Institution Other.