Hello Universe exhibition | National Science and Media Museum

Hello Universe closed on 22 January 2020. For details of our current exhibitions, take a look at our what’s on page.

A mesmerising journey through the incredible sights and sounds of space.

We invited you to look up and fuel your curiosity; imagine remote galaxies and wonder who—or what—is out there. Hello Universe took you on a voyage, from the earliest paintings of planets to today’s super-high definition photographs of deepest space.

Mars Expedition Viking Lander (1:2 Scale Model) on orange background — Mars Expedition Viking Lander, 1:2 scale model, 1976
© Science Museum Group Collection

The reflections of Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the US flag, the Lunar Module and television camera, are reflected in the face mask of Astronaut Edwin E Aldrin when the picture was taken by Armstrong as they walked across the surface of the moon — ‘Reflections on the Moon’, NASA photograph taken by astronaut Neil Armstrong, July 1969
© Associated Press. Daily Herald Archive/Science Museum Group

Close-up of Jupiter's Great Red Spot — Jupiter's Great Red Spot viewed by Voyager I
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, courtesy of NASA/JPL

Deep Space Station 63 with a sunset in the backkground — Deep Space Station 63, the third antenna of the Deep Space Network, Robledo de Chevala, Spain

Pages from a book, written in Latin, including detailed illustrations of the Moon — Pages from ‘Sidereus, nuncius magna’ (‘The Starry Messenger’) by Galileo Galilei, 1610
© Science Museum Group Collection

Astronauts Jeffrey Hoffman and Story Musgrave install the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on the Hubble Space Telescope, 1993
NASA

Silver electrotype copy of a plaster model showing the lunar crater Eratosthenes, in hinged case — Electrotype copy of a plaster model showing the lunar crater Eratosthenes, made by Henry Blunt, c.1851
© Science Museum Group Collection

Two-frame mosaic of Great Orion nebulae, including the smaller nebula M43 and dusty, bluish reflection of nebulae NGC 1977 and others — Great Orion nebulae
© Tony Hallas

Self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Illustration of the planet Saturn — Lithograph in colour: the planet Saturn, observed 30 November 1874
© Science Museum Group Collection

You could get up close to a meteorite; come face-to-face with a Mars lander; build your own probe, rover or rocket from LEGO; discover what space actually sounds like; and listen to intergalactic messages... or create your own!

Hello Universe told real stories of technology reaching millions of miles beyond our planet, introduced the people who make it happen, and showed how you could be part of the next great space discovery.

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