Forget fantasy football, fantasy basketball, fantasy surfing; here’s a leaderboard with a difference.
Over the next few weeks, the Hubble Space Telescope’s Facebook page brings you Hubble Madness – a tournament style ‘citizen science‘ activity to choose the best Hubble image (out of a shortlist).
What will emerge victorious – a spiral galaxy? A nebula? A star cluster? What about Comet ISON? It’s up to you to decide.
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Luckily the tournament doesn’t include all the images captured by Hubble since its launch 24 years ago, or it might take a little longer than just a few weeks to vote for the people’s favourite.
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Since April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has:
- Taken over one million exposures.
- Observed more than 33,000 astronomical targets.
- Produced over 8,500 scientific papers.
- Traveled approximately 3.2 billion miles by circling the Earth every 96 minutes – that’s the equivalent of more than 17 round trips to the Sun and back!
- Provided more than 42 terabytes of data which has been archived.
Head on over to the Hubble Heritage Flickr account to see some gorgeous high res images, and vote now.