[Vision2020] PDSC Open House, Friday, April 29th

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Friday, April 29th from 6-8 PM
Palouse Discovery Science Center
Open House - Free Admittance

Bring a friend! Bring a date! The Whirlpool and Eagle can hardly wait!

The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 15 years of service this month
and=20 the Palouse Discovery Science Center and NASA are inviting you
and your=20 family to join us for a party.  On Friday, April 29th from
6:00 =96 8:00 PM= =20 the Palouse Discovery Science Center will be
open free to the public. Come= =20 enjoy some Hubble =93birthday=94
cake, view two spectacular new Hubble=
 images,=20
and explore our fantastic science center exhibits.

The PDSC is one of a few select sites in the nation that has been
given two= =20 special mural-sized images taken by Hubble to
commemorate all of Hubble=92s= =20 accomplishments over the last 15
years. These images, one of the Whirlpool= =20 Galaxy and the other of
the Eagle Nebula, were officially released to the=20 public on April
25, 2005.

The new Hubble images will be on display indefinitely at the
Palouse=20 Discovery Science Center, located at 2371 NE Hopkins Court
in Pullman,=20 Washington. The PDSC is normally open Wednesday through
Saturday, 10:00 AM= =20 to 3:00 PM, and Sunday, Noon to 3:00 PM. For
more information, call=20 509.332.6869 or check our website at=20
<http://www.palousescience.org/>www.palousescience.org.

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE IMAGES & THE HUBBLE SPACE 
TELESCOPE:
The 4-foot-by-6-foot image of the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) reveals
striking=20 details of how clusters of stars are born in the
galaxy=92s long, curving=20 spiral arms. The 3-foot-by-6-foot
photograph of the Eagle Nebula shows a=20 gaseous landscape sculpted
by ultraviolet light from a group of massive,=20 hot, young stars.
These views are among the largest and sharpest images=20 ever taken by
the Hubble telescope. They show the awesome beauty of space.

The Earth-orbiting observatory was deployed in space on April 25,
1990.=20 Hubble orbits above Earth=92s murky atmosphere, which
distorts light from=20 celestial objects. During its 15 years of
viewing the universe, the Hubble= =20 telescope has taken more than
700,000 snapshots of celestial objects such=20 as galaxies, dying
stars, and giant gas clouds, the birthplace of stars.=20 The telescope
gave the world a front-row seat to watch chunks of a comet=20 slam
into the giant planet Jupiter. Hubble also photographed galaxies that=
=20 existed billions of years ago, when the universe was a youngster.

Additional information about the Hubble Space Telescope is available
at=20 http://hubblesite.org

Thank you for continuing to support hands-on, minds-on science on the=
 Palouse.

Mark Goddard - <file://??.htm>director at palousescience.org
Palouse Discovery Science Center
2371 NE Hopkins Ct., Pullman, WA  99163
509-334-1494 (W)






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