Build your own space scrapbook

Want to learn more about your favorite star or galaxy? NASA Hubble Space Telescope pictures and other information about thousands of stars and galaxies beyond our solar system are just a mouse click away by visiting the “Spectral/Image Scrapbook.” The “scrapbook” was developed by the Multi-Mission Archive at the Space Telescope Science Institute (MAST) team in Baltimore, MD.

This new astronomy Web resource provides easy access to the rich repository of black-and-white images and spectra of stars and galaxies stored in the MAST digital archives. While a picture shows astronomers what a celestial object looks like, a spectrum provides information about its physical nature and its motion toward or away from Earth. Astronomers analyze spectra and images of a celestial body to get a complete picture.

NOTE TO EDITORS: Graphics for this release are available on the Web at:
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/2001/17 and via links in
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/latest.html;
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html and
http://hubble.stsci.edu/go/news.

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