About Veronica
Real name: Veronica
24, Female,
24, Female,
By day: Receptionist & programs assistant (AmeriCorps)
Describes themself as: A lover of photography, especially of those most exquisite images produced by Hubble and the folks at STScI. I'm excited to be able to offer products here that feature the haunting phenomena of deep space.
STScI has contracted with NASA to help bring the discoveries of the Hubble back to the public, and to this end, they release these images into the public domain, a happy thing for you and I. Read their copyright statement here.
Have you ever wondered about the amazing colors in Hubble images? In fact, only some of the images show us the nebulae or galaxies as we would see them if we were there. In order to better see and understand the composition of nebulae and galaxies, many of the exposures are made to capture a particular range of light, some of them in ultraviolet, some in infrared, and some in visible light. The Hubble's cameras take exposures in black and white, and the folks at STScI assign a color to each of the different light ranges, so that we can see the infrared or ultraviolet light in the final composite image. They explain this (and the reason for doing it) better, and with illustrations, at the HubbleSite.org. Check it out, it's pretty interesting!
If you're interested in finding more deep space images, you can sign up for news releases (including the images) at that site as well, and there are a few other space telescopes worth looking in on for their images. Chandra and NOAO (e.g., the Kitt Peak Observatory) make plenty of impressive images of their own, though both of these do claim copyright - so browse their images to your heart's content, but I can't offer them here and you should check their copyright notices before downloading or printing any of them. Spitzer, managed by Caltech, holds a copyright policy fairly similar to STScI/Hubble's, available here. The Spitzer telescope specializes in infrared images, and I have recently added a few of its captures to the gallery.
I will always note the appropriate image credits on my products.
And finally, if you like photography that's a little more "down-to-earth," I keep a gallery of my original work over at Inkwell Solace. ;)
STScI has contracted with NASA to help bring the discoveries of the Hubble back to the public, and to this end, they release these images into the public domain, a happy thing for you and I. Read their copyright statement here.
Have you ever wondered about the amazing colors in Hubble images? In fact, only some of the images show us the nebulae or galaxies as we would see them if we were there. In order to better see and understand the composition of nebulae and galaxies, many of the exposures are made to capture a particular range of light, some of them in ultraviolet, some in infrared, and some in visible light. The Hubble's cameras take exposures in black and white, and the folks at STScI assign a color to each of the different light ranges, so that we can see the infrared or ultraviolet light in the final composite image. They explain this (and the reason for doing it) better, and with illustrations, at the HubbleSite.org. Check it out, it's pretty interesting!
If you're interested in finding more deep space images, you can sign up for news releases (including the images) at that site as well, and there are a few other space telescopes worth looking in on for their images. Chandra and NOAO (e.g., the Kitt Peak Observatory) make plenty of impressive images of their own, though both of these do claim copyright - so browse their images to your heart's content, but I can't offer them here and you should check their copyright notices before downloading or printing any of them. Spitzer, managed by Caltech, holds a copyright policy fairly similar to STScI/Hubble's, available here. The Spitzer telescope specializes in infrared images, and I have recently added a few of its captures to the gallery.
I will always note the appropriate image credits on my products.
And finally, if you like photography that's a little more "down-to-earth," I keep a gallery of my original work over at Inkwell Solace. ;)
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