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March 2, 2010, marked the 15 year anniversary of the launch of Astro-2 on the space shuttle Endeavour.
For the 15th Anniversary of Astro-1 in December 2005, we were able to gather for a celebration lunch at JHU. Here are some photos taken at this lunch.
Welcome to the home page of the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT) project at The Johns Hopkins University. HUT was conceived, designed, and built by astronomers and engineers at JHU to perform astronomical observations in the far-ultraviolet portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, wavelengths of light that are inaccessible to ground-based telescopes. The telescope flew twice aboard the space shuttle, once in December 1990 (Astro-1) and again in March 1995 (Astro-2), as part of a package of instruments called the Astro Observatory.
HUT's primary purpose was to observe wavelengths of light that are too short to be seen with the Hubble Space Telescope, although overlap was provided to allow direct comparison. HUT was used to observe hundreds of objects, ranging from nearby stars and planets to the most distant objects known in the Universe, the quasars.
Using the links below, you can access a wide range of popular level information about the telescope and its two space shuttle flights. Links to technical information are provided for those who are interested in more detail. We hope you enjoy browsing these pages and learning about HUT.
Also, peruse the Historical Photos
page for scans of the Astro-1 and Astro-2 HUT Slide Sets, Earth Views, and
scenes from the Payload Operations Control Cemter at NASA MSFC during each flight.
What was HUT and What Did it Do?
Click here to learn more about the telescope, what it was designed to
do, and why. Includes line diagrams and photos as part of your
personalized guided tour!
HUT and the Astro Observatory
This section places HUT in the context of the Astro Observatory,
describing some of the project's history, and providing links to
information about the other instruments in the package. Special pages
specific to the Astro-1 and Astro-2 missions are also available.
Scientific Results from HUT
Click here to learn about some of the exciting results achieved with
HUT, described at a popular level. Links to more technical descriptions
are provided.
Publications involving HUT
This section contains reference listings for many of the
published articles that report findings from HUT. Click
here
to get right to the Astro-2 papers!
The People Who Made it Happen
Use this page to learn about many of the people involved in designing,
building, and flying HUT on the space shuttle.
The Photo Gallery
Although photos are linked in elsewhere throughout our pages, we have
assembled the best in one place! Check out images of the launches, the
astronauts and telescopes on-orbit, and various earth views.
Technical Information About HUT
Project personnel (or interested bystanders) can use this link to get
directly to technical information about the telescope and/or data reduction.
HUT Quick Look Spectral Atlas
Many of the spectra obtained with HUT during Astro-1 and Astro-2 are on-line. The
top page contains links to "example" spectra of various types of objects
for the casual user. A separate page allows you to search the
actual observation log and select specific objects of interest.
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA Kennedy Space Center
NASA Archival Site for STS-35, Astro-1)
NASA Archival Site for STS-67, Astro-2)
Want to know more about how astronomers analyze light and
actually learn about distant objects in the Universe? Check out the
educational Web site:
"What are Those Squiggly
Lines? Learning from Light"
put together by HUT astronomer Bill Blair.
Please send us your
Comments, Questions, and/or Suggestions.
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Mary Romelfanger (mary@pha.jhu.edu) or Bill Blair (wpb@pha.jhu.edu)