ViewSpace

Winner Of the 2003 Muse Award, ViewSpace brings the wonders of the journey of celestial exploration to the Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art as a permanent addition to the Hall of Ideas and Museum Galleries. This multimedia exhibit program comes from the Space Telescope Science Institute of Baltimore and brings the most recent photographs from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, as well as other programs.

Purchased with funds from the Todd Gunkler Memorial Fund and with a recent grant from the Alden B. and Vada B. Dow Family Foundations, ViewSpace entices and mesmerizes visitors with beautiful, high resolution images, digital movies and animations, interpretive captions and evocative space music.

ViewSpace directly feeds via the Internet to feature
numerous programs such as:

Celestial Tours
Featuring the breathtaking Hubble photographs.

Hubble Update
Providing the latest images and discoveries from the telescope as they are released.

Celestial Update
Featuring news from the frontiers of astronomy with emphasis on the latest
from the NASA Great Observatories.

Astronomy Picture of the Day
Each day a new "astronomically-themed" image with interpretive text.

Mars Exploration Rover Update
Stay informed on the Mars Exploration rovers as they explore Mars.

Cassini-Huygens Update
Reports from the Saturn orbiter and the Titan Entry Probe
now en route to the ringed planet.

Skylines
Beautifully illustrated introductions to the constellations, planets, deep sky objects and special astronomical events of the night sky updated monthly.

Science as Art
Because there’s more to life than science, we feature visualizations
of astronomically-inspired and –informed poetry.

New programs are continually added by the Space Telescope Science Institute of Baltimore. ViewSpace runs continuously and is included in regular museum admissions, Members of ABDM and Friends of the Center are free.



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