{"id":10229,"date":"2015-03-25T23:44:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T03:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10229"},"modified":"2015-03-25T23:44:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T03:44:56","slug":"national-geographic-marks-hubbles-25th-year-in-space-with-a-great-image-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10229","title":{"rendered":"National Geographic marks Hubble&#8217;s 25th year in space with a great image collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hubble Space Telescope<\/a> was placed into orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery on\u00a0April 24, 1990. To celebrate this 25th anniversary, the\u00a0National Geographic<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">features &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2015\/04\/hubble-telescope\/ferris-text\" target=\"_blank\">Hubble&#8217;s Greatest Hits<\/a>&#8221; in the new April issue. Hubble&#8217;s imaging team lead\u00a0Zolt Levay has curated his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2015\/04\/hubble-telescope\/hubble-photography\" target=\"_blank\">top 10 celestial views<\/a>\u00a0of all time for the feature. The \u00a0also shares the fascinating photo coloration process that help Levay and his team create Hubble&#8217;s stunning images. And writer Timothy Ferris shares background on the program in the related\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2015\/04\/hubble-telescope\/ferris-text\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Find more amazing\u00a0images in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2015\/03\/150316-50-great-images-from-the-hubble-space-telescope\/\" target=\"_d\">this gallery<\/a>\u00a0as well.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fDwkDZ5dx-c?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hubble Space Telescope was placed into orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery on\u00a0April 24, 1990. To celebrate this 25th anniversary, the\u00a0National Geographic features &#8220;Hubble&#8217;s Greatest Hits&#8221; in the new April issue. Hubble&#8217;s imaging team lead\u00a0Zolt Levay has curated his\u00a0top 10 celestial views\u00a0of all time for the feature. The \u00a0also shares the fascinating photo coloration &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10229\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Geographic marks Hubble&#8217;s 25th year in space with a great image collection<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,36,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-multiple-media","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2EZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16960,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16960","url_meta":{"origin":10229,"position":0},"title":"Video: TMRO Orbit 11.42 &#8211; &#8220;Hubble&#8217;s fate, Mars Cubes and space brains&#8221;","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest episode of TMRO.tv Space is now available: Hubble\u2019s fate, Mars Cubes and space brains - Orbit 11.42 - TMRO This is the episode of the season where we have the ultimate answer to the life universe and everything! 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