May 5, 2015

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will host a Sunday Experiment on May 17, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. EDT. The event is free and open to the public with a focus on school-aged children and their families.

This month's Sunday Experiment features activities to help people learn about the Hubble Space Telescope, which just celebrated 25 years in orbit. Jim Jeletic, Hubble's Deputy Project Manager, from NASA Goddard will give a brief presentation and volunteers will provide hands-on activities that include exploring the tools used by astronauts to repair and upgrade the spacecraft, a spacewalk choreography exercise that teaches the challenges of spacewalks, and the "Looking Deep into the Universe with Hubble" activity that counts and categorizes galaxies.

On April 24, 2015, NASA marked the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's launch. Since its launch, Hubble has allowed astronomers to observe the universe in stunning clarity, revealed properties of space and time, and shed light on many of the great mysteries of the universe making conjectures certainties. Today, Hubble continues to provide views of cosmic wonders never before seen and is at the forefront of many new discoveries.

Image: The Hubble Space Telescope in orbit above Earth.