Hubble Online Activities

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!

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

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

Trivia

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

A title slide that says "astronaut Fun Facts"

Hubble Astronaut Fun Facts

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

Test Your Knowledge

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

Control Center 360-Degree Tour

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

Take the Tour

NASA

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. It also connects you to scientists and engineers who actively support NASA’s Astrophysics missions.

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NASA

Calling Future Explorers

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

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.

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.

Hubble Podcasts

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

Scientist sits and points to a screen with a Hubble image while he discusses the science.

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.

Keep Exploring