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Hubble space telescope

Cooperative project of NASA and ESA: Space telescope that was put into orbit in 1990. Orbiting 600 kilometres above the earth, it leaves behind the densest parts of the earth’s atmosphere, allowing an unrivalled, undisturbed view into space.

Outreach website for the Hubble Space Telescope

Website of the Space Telescope Science Institute

What is Einstein Online?

Einstein Online is a web portal with comprehensible information on Einstein's theories of relativity and their most exciting applications from the smallest particles to cosmology.

Einstein Online is provided by the

Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
(Albert-Einstein-Institut)

About Einstein Online

Includes information on our authors and contributing Institutions, and a brief history of the website.

Glossary

More than 400 entries from "absolute zero" to "XMM Newton" - whenever you see this type of link on an Einstein Online page, it'll take you to an entry in our relativistic dictionary.

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