Description
HubbleSite, the online home of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, invites you to help choose the world’s most popular Hubble images. Get wallpaper, Hubble facts, and more.
Hubble’s vast collection of images awaits your critical and discerning eye. Become part of the Hubble mission by voting for the most spectacular and awe-inspiring sights from Hubble’s archive.
The app provides a selection of Hubble wallpaper images, chosen and edited for visually stunning results on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Plus, get facts about Hubble history; the telescope; and the scientific discoveries it’s revealed, from the age of the universe to the mysterious force known as dark energy. The app has been optimized for iPhone and iPod Touch’s Retina display.
For over 20 years, Hubble has orbited the Earth, beaming home images of celestial splendor. Join in the excitement of the Hubble mission.
What's New in Version 1.3.1
Thanks for using the HubbleSite app, everyone! We’ve got new content for you as well as some bug fixes. Enjoy.
* Added 9 new wallpapers
* Added 50 new images to the slideshow
* Updated “You Decide” images to include newest releases
* Slideshow images can now be swiped
* Fixed the bug that caused slideshow images to become out-of-sync with captions
* Fixed the bug that caused app to forget your level in “You Decide”
* Fixed grammatical errors
* Redesigned science, mission facts and info screens
* Performance optimization fixes to increase speed
* Image optimization to reduce size
* Full support for retina displays included
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Customer Reviews
short lived fun
I downloaded this app with the expectations of it being interactive and informative. Well, i was let down in both cases. All this app consists of is wallpaper images. Granted, they are brilliant images, but if you're looking for anything other than pictures, look for another app.
Pros: Brilliant images formatted for the iPhone
Cons: Monsterous File Size (65MB), no facts/information on pictures, not interactive
Bottom line - it's fun for a day, and then just wastes space on your phone.
1.3.1 is prone to spurious crashes
This app used to be very stable and reasonably useful for viewing some Hubble telescope images. It used to be reasonably good on iPads, for not being an iPad aware app (complete inability to deal with screen rotation).
Now the app is prone to spurious crashes, especially when A/B rating Hubble photos for the most popular images.
It would be nice if this app were iPad aware.
It would be even better if the new crashing gets completely wrung out.
Crazy cool
This is the best app for pictures in space. So cool.
- Free
- Category: Education
- Updated: Jun 03, 2011
- Version: 1.3.1
- Size: 61.4 MB
- Seller: Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc
- © 2011 STScI
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.1 or later.
