Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre
The Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre (HEIC) is a science communication office, established at the Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF) in Munich, Germany late in 1999. This initiative was taken so as to fulfil the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) outreach and education tasks for the European Space Agency (ESA), as outlined in an agreement between NASA and ESA.
Over the past few years HEIC has become a very distinguished communication office of experts using the newest software and techniques. The European Hubble office has produced large amounts of astronomical material suitable both for educational purposes and wider public consumption. HEIC provides a well-assorted archive that is publicly available on its web page.
The work is centred on the production of news and photo releases that highlight interesting Hubble science results and images. These are often European in origin, and so not only increase the awareness of ESA's Hubble share (15%), but the contribution of European scientists to the observatory. Furthermore, the group produces video releases, innovative educational material, CD-ROMs, brochures, posters, as well as DVDs and museum information kiosks, and much more.
The Hubble Information Centre is headed by the science communication specialist Lars Lindberg Christensen and the lead graphic designer is Martin Kornmesser.
External links
- Homepage of the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre
- Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility
- ESO/ ST-ECF Science Archive
- Hubble Heritage Project
- European Space Agency
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- Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS)
- Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS)
- Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS)
- Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS)
- Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS)
- Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3)
- Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR)
- Faint Object Camera (FOC)
- Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS)
- Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS/HRS)
- High Speed Photometer (HSP)
- Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC)
- Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2)
and images
- Pillars of Creation (1995)
- Hubble Deep Field (1995)
- Hubble Deep Field South (1998)
- Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (2003–04)
- Extended Groth Strip (2004–05)
- SWEEPS (2006)
- Mystic Mountain (2010)
- Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (2012)
- Hubble Legacy Field (2019)
- Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey
- Anniversary images
- List of deep fields
- Great Observatories program
- Space Telescope Science Institute
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- NASA
- Edwin Hubble
- Hubble (2010 documentary)
- Hubble Origins Probe
- Category
- Commons