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Expand your cosmic horizons and get to know the telescope behind some of astronomy’s most groundbreaking discoveries. Explore our videos, interactive activities, e-books, imagery, and more.

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Interactives

Find out what image Hubble took on your birthday. Interact with a virtual Hubble spacecraft. Explore the night sky by zooming in on a cosmic object and see Hubble's view. Have fun with these and other interactive features and games!

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Hearing Hubble

It’s one thing to look at a Hubble image, but have you ever heard one? Choose from 10 breathtaking Hubble views, then pick the instruments, scanning pattern, harmony, and scientific information you want to use to create a symphony that represents the image in sound!

Create Your Song
A screenshot of Hubble's Cosmic Adventure game.

Hubble’s Cosmic Adventure

Get your passports and spacesuits ready — you’re going on a cosmic journey with Hubble!

Begin Your Journey

What Did Hubble See on Your Birthday?

Get a Hubble image for any date.

Get an Image

Name that Nebula!

What do you see in the cosmic clouds? Play this game to match nebulae with their names.

Play the Game
Faint band of stars, gas, and dust stretches from left to right across the frame. This band is a representation of our galaxy as seen from space, edge-on. Colorful icons representing the types of objects Hubble has observed litter the frame: blue stars, orange spiral for galaxies, pink clouds for nebulae, yellow swirling top for exotic objects, and a green circle for exoplanets.

Skymap

Roam the night sky and zoom in to get a Hubble's-eye-view of cosmic objects

Click to Roam the Sky
Hubble floating over the earth in an interactive virtual application

Interactive Orbiting Hubble

Interact with a satellite's-eye-view of an orbiting Hubble.

Interact with Hubble
Screenshot of the "What is Hubble Observing" tool window. Black background with stars filling the window. Text indicating the target. A bright patch in the center of the window is the Crab Nebula. It appears as a jagged-edged bright cloud.

What is Hubble Observing?

See the area of sky Hubble is currently investigating or explore its upcoming and past targets.

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A historical timeline of Hubble's history that can be clicked on to go from one event to the next.

Interactive Timelines

Follow the story of how Hubble came to be, how astronauts kept it going, and its major discoveries with this interactive timeline.

Go to Timeline
Eagle Nebula showing visible and infrared

Explore Light

See how cosmic objects transform when viewed at different wavelengths of light.

Explore Light
Screenshots from the NASA App.

Hubble on the NASA App

NASA's free mobile application puts Hubble interactives, resources, and information at your fingertips, including an augmented reality model exclusive to the NASA app. Use this app to stay up to date on all things Hubble!

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Observing the Night Sky

Explore the night sky with Hubble

Dark blue starry night sky. People looking through a telescope and at the sky silhouetted against the starry backdrop.

Hubble's Night Sky Observing Challenge

Celebrate 35 years of Hubble observations with our year-long stargazing adventure!

Join the Celebration!

Trivia

Learn fun trivia about the Hubble astronauts and see if you know some of Hubble's more interesting facts.

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Hubble Astronaut Fun Facts

How well do you know Hubble astronauts? Play this astronaut trivia game and test your knowledge!

Test Your Knowledge
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Quiz Challenge

Test your knowledge of Hubble science and technology. Hear the answers from the scientists and engineers behind the telescope.

Find Out the Facts

360-Degree Tours

Take a 360 degree virtual tour of Hubble in space and of the Hubble control center that keeps Hubble working.

Hubble Spacecraft 360 Degree Tour

Visit Hubble in orbit and investigate how it works in the 360-degree virtual tour.

Take the Tour
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Control Center 360-Degree Tour

Go behind the scenes at the heart of Hubble operations with this 360-degree virtual tour.

Take the Tour

Gaming

Download your game documents and embark on an exciting quest to unlock more knowledge about our universe. 

Illustration Title: "The Lost Universe" in yellow at the top of the page. A green, yellow, and beige dragon is wrapped around an illustration of the Hubble Space Telescope. The image background is in various shades of blue and black and depicts a dark forest with trees in black silhouette.

The Lost Universe

Download NASA's tabletop role-playing game adventure

Start Your Adventure

Hand-Held Hubble

Try these fun and engaging hands-on projects at home.

Sample of the Hand Held Hubble Expert Model

Hand-Held Hubble: Expert Paper Model

Download the instructions and patterns to build your own expert paper model of Hubble

Start building
Sample of the Hand Held Hubble Paper Model

Hand-Held Hubble: Paper Model

Download the instructions and patterns to build your own paper model of Hubble

Start building
Sample Hand Held Hubble PVC Model

Hand-Held Hubble: PVC Model

Download the instructions and patterns to build your own PVC model of Hubble

Start building

Other Activities

Bright gas cloud in colors of orange, red yellow, pink, purple, and blue fills the image. The cloud is dotted with bright-white, orange, yellow, red, and blue stars. "NASA's Universe of Learning" text and logo in white, along with the subtitle, "An Integrated Astrophysics STEM Learning and Literacy Program."

NASA's Universe of Learning

NASA's Universe of Learning brings together scientists, engineers, and educators to provide a range of ready-to-go programming to add to your events and activities.

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A spiral galaxy seen from overhead, with its two major arms spiraling out from its bright white core. At the end of the arm on the right is another bright white blob, this is a second galaxy. The arms are bluish and purple, peppered with countless stars.

ViewSpace

ViewSpace is a free, web-based collection of digital interactives and videos highlighting the latest developments in astronomy and Earth science.

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Three bright stars with diffraction spikes shine near the center-right of the image, illuminating nearby clouds that glow in pale blue. The clouds darken at the edges of the image, and are dotted with smaller stars, some also with diffraction spikes.

Science Highlights E-Book

From our planetary neighbors to the far reaches of the cosmos, explore highlights from Hubble’s three and a half decades of trailblazing discoveries in this new e-book.

Read More
Hubble Space Telescope Activity Workbook Cover

Hubble Activity Workbook

A 5 page activity booklet consisting of coloring pages, connect the dots, word find, word jumble and word decoder.

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More Hubble Activities and Links

Astronaut on an EVA in a white space suit waving while working on the Hubble space telescope.

Calling Future Explorers

Start with a 360-degree video and discover the unique paths that led people to careers with the Hubble Space Telescope.

Hubble Nebula - Crab Nebula

Explore the Night Sky

Using our Skymap, find astronomical objects with a backyard telescope, or binoculars, then compare your view to Hubble's images of the object.

Ring Nebula

Hubble Albums

Flip through Hubble's Flickr albums and see astronauts at work in space, behind the scenes of mission operations, and images from nebulae to gravitational lens.

Upper left: "Hubble Focus" opening of the telescope is the "O" Center: bright-white star, Center Bottom: Orange-red planet with cloud bands, Center: small, bright-white star and very small red-orange dwarf star

Hubble E-books

Investigate the mysteries of the universe, or dive into Hubble's history with our free, downloadable e-books.

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Hubble Podcasts

Hear about Hubble's mission, discoveries, and images.

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Hubble Videos

From science to history, from servicing mission to technology, and from documentaries to human interest stories, NASA had produced a library of informative and interesting videos on the Hubble Space Telescope.

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