Its Time to Say Goodbye!

Your Universe Adventure is nearly finished. You will now return to the classroom for one last exploration. In this exercise, you will use what you have learned to make one final calculation of the Hubble constant and the age of the universe. But this is not a simulation. You will be using data gathered by the most powerful tool in the history of astronomy, the Hubble Space Telescope, to make your calculations. First, if your teacher has not done this for you, you will need to download and print the lab sheet for this exercise.

Press here to download the lab instructions.

Then you will need to download the photometry data for the M100 galaxy.

Press here to go to the data page.

You will need an Adobe Acrobat reader to read and print the Window manuals.

You can get one here.

I hope you have enjoyed your adventure, The universe is a really big place, but not too big for us to understand if we try. If you would like to go farther, ask your teacher about the extensions that go with this exploration. If you are working on your own, go to the home page and then to the teachers' page to read about further adventures.Keep on learning, and

keep on looking up!