Showing posts with label Galaxies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Galaxies. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Help Decide What The Hubble Space Telescope Will Look At

As part of the International year of Astronomy the folks over at Space Telescope Science Institute have a poll where you can vote on six astronomical objects for the Hubble Telescope to observe.
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The six objects you can choose from are: A star-forming region(NGC 6634); two planetary nebulae (NGC 6072 & NGC 40); A spiral galaxy (NGC 5172); an edge-on galaxy (NGC 4289); and a pair of interacting galaxies (Arp 274). Voting ends on March 1st, and the winning object will be released between April 2nd and 5th. After you've voted you can enter to win 1 of 100 16"x20" photos of the winning object.

So, get on over there and vote. And if anyone is interested in knowing what I voted for, it was the interacting galaxies.
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