Web Log: Hubble Gallery showcases Milky Way and beyond

Explore the universe with this Android app

I like finding decent open source apps, especially such useful and well-designed ones like Hubble Gallery.

This Android app showcases the best images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope using content pulled from the NASA-run Hubblesite.org.

From breathtaking images of the Orion Nebula to awe-inspiring spacescapes of spiral galaxies, it is easy to feel small and insignificant but worth remembering Carl Sagan's quote: "You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. You have a right to be here."

The app provides plenty of information on the various high-res images and also the ability to set them as your smartphone wallpaper.

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So let's all appreciate good old Hubble before its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, launches in 2018 and hogs the limelight.