Hubble Telescope - April 24

Sunday, April 24, 2022

Today is New Kids on The Block Day

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Hubble Telescope

ON THIS DATE

• 1800 - President John Adams established the Library of Congress when he signs legislation to allocate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".
• 1898 - Spain declares war on the United States.
• 1990 - The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1904 - Painter Willem de Kooning
• 1905 - Novelist and poet Robert Penn Warren
• 1934 - Actor Shirley MacLaine
• 1942 - Singer and actor Barbra Streisand

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• The Beatles -  Across the Universe - LISTEN
• The Beastie Boys - Intergalactic - LISTEN

POEMS OF THE DAY 
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Light of Sars 
Megan Snyder-Camp - Repairing the Hubble Telescope 

THEME:  Hubble Telescope

• Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - The Hubble Telescope (3:09) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NASA - Hubble Space Telescope Site - VIEW and READ
• Grades 4-12 - NASA - Hubble Space Telescope - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Hubble and the Expanding Universe - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Hubble Telescope: Looking Up (Available in Spanish) (2:19) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - Swift and  Hubble Probe an Asteroid Crash (Available in Spanish) (1:46) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NASA - What Hubble Taught Us About the Planets (Available in Spanish) (4:46) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Physics Girl -  What's the Darkest Part of the Sky? The Hubble Deep Field (2:41) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Invisible Universe Revealed (52:52) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Hubble Data Used to Look 10,000 Years into the Future (1:33) - VIEW

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339