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Hubble Space Telescope to star at April 14 Space Place event

April 9, 2015 By Terry Devitt

Photo: Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble drifts over Earth after its release on May 19, 2009 by the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis.

Photos: NASA

Twenty-five years of spectacular imagery and groundbreaking astronomy from the Hubble Space Telescope will be the subject of a Tuesday, April 14 public presentation at UW–Madison’s Space Place.

UW-Madison astronomy Professor John Gallagher, one of the original planners and users of the trailblazing space telescope, will deliver a 7 p.m. lecture titled “The Hubble Space Telescope: A Quarter Century at the Frontiers of the Cosmos.”

Photo: Orion nebula

Thousands of stars forming in the Orion nebula, as captured by Hubble and colored by NASA.

Gallagher helped plan the telescope and its use over many years. He will detail the discoveries and technologies that have emerged from the orbiting observatory as well as the telescope’s many Badger State connections, including the development of the UW–Madison-built High Speed Photometer, one of the original scientific instruments aboard Hubble and which now resides at Space Place.

The lecture is free and open to the public. UW–Madison’s Space Place is located at 2300 S. Park St. in the Villager Mall, just north of Madison’s Beltline Highway.