Hubble's canvas: Grand Design. Stretching The Canvas / Картины Хаббла: Великий замысел. Расстилая холст (2007)

In a affair exploring the Universe are greatest ally is the Habble space telescope. No scientific instrument in history has reviewed so mach or taken us so far. Located over atmosphere Habble sees that we cannot. Using viewing colour to representing scientific data Habble paint pictures improbable of clearity. Pictures that join of art and science and formed direct link between a most powerful forces in nature and a human spirit.
Grand Design – The forces of nature, operating at large and small scales, create a universe of symmetry and form. Now we consider the interplay of those forces in creating structures as dramatic as Saturn’s rings and the Whirlpool Galaxy, a classic example of a grand design spiral.
Stretching the Canvas – By watching how galaxies rotate, astronomers realised there must be something else there that is invisible but exerts a powerful gravitational pull. This is dark matter. It has an amazing influence on the universe, forming a “gravitational lens” which distorts our view of distant stars, but also keeping gravity from pulling the universe in on itself. The Hubble Space Telescope not only has allowed us to learn more about dark matter, but about dark energy, the mysterious force that is causing the universe to accelerate outwards. This helped resolve one of science’s great mysteries: the age of the universe.







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