Hubble Telescope Celebration Event

 

Its been 25 years since the Hubble space telescope was launched.  To celebrate this anniversary there have been various events around the UK.  The Su+2 household went along to one at the Winchester Science Centre and planetarium : it was for invited guests only and the top level of the Centre was open so everyone could have a play on the hands on science stuff that is there. 
As with any thing that is well used the exhibits were a little tired.  

Interactive Colon

   

This is the interactive colon.  You choose a food, put in your age and follow the food through the digestive system by scanning your ticket at various points. The Teen picked sausages and said she was 69 years old.

Entering the Colon

 Luckily the colon wasn't completely interactive; there was no smell to go with some of the sounds.  There was one point however, where you had a group of toilet lids and once you got to them you opened up the one with the flashing lights which would enable you to feel what your poo would be like after eating a diet containing sausages.  I was the only one brave enough to do it.  Yuck, it did feel horribly realistic. 
  
After a while everyone was offered some nibbles and drinks, both the Teen and the Engineer were delighted with what was on offer.  I wasn't as I don't like iced doughnuts.  Oh well better for my colon no doubt.


After all this we were called in to the main event in the Planetarium, a talk on the Hubble space telescope, its initial problems and how they were fixed and finally what it could see.  This was excellently presented with just the right balance of science and humour. 

Then we went back out to the main hall to see one of the new images from the Hubble which was being unveiled for the first time.

I eventually managed to get a shot of it without anyone standing in front of it.

All in all it was a good evening, not too long as there were a lot of quite young children there who enjoyed playing with the science toys, the adults did too.  We then drove home through the beautiful Meon valley countryside.