Learn about the 2010 20th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope on the HubbleSite Website, where you’ll gain access to a remarkable gallery of images, updates on dark energy and other discoveries, detailed information about the Hubble and the planned-for, new Webb telescope, and an educators’ section offering teaching tools, online activities, and information on museum exhibits featuring the Hubble.

The Space Telescope Science Institute, which is responsible for the telescope and HubbleSite, also offers monthly Hubble Public Talks at 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD, featuring a  noted scientist discussing a cosmic topic. Lectures are at 8 p.m. the first Tuesday of every month in the STScI auditorium, on the campus of Johns Hopkins University.

Image credit: This Hubble photograph, released for the 20th anniversary of the Hubble, shows a small portion of one of the largest seen star-birth regions in the galaxy, the Carina Nebula. Towers of cool hydrogen laced with dust rise from the wall of the nebula. Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI).For more information, additional images, and a video,  see the NASA Site.

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