HELL’S KITCHEN — The Hubble Space Telescope’s ongoing 25th birthday festivities at the Intrepid Museum are coming to a close this weekend.
Hubble@25, a temporary exhibit at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum at West 46th Street and 12th Avenue, launched in October 2014 to commemorate a quarter-century of the telescope and will close this Sunday, Jan. 10.
But aspiring astronomers, astronauts and museum-goers still have a chance to see the exhibit’s Hubble-related artifacts, high-resolution photos captured by the telescope — which propelled into orbit in 1990 — and a basketball that was once owned by astronomer Edwin Hubble, for whom the telescope is named.
The exhibit, which also features tools that were used to fix the telescope, is co-curated by former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino, who went on two different missions to provide maintenance for the telescope.
The exhibit will be open Wednesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
Guests can visit Hubble@25 with an admission ticket that includes access to the Space Shuttle Pavilion, which costs $31 for adults, $27 for seniors and college students, $24 for guests ages 7 to 17, $24 for veterans and $17 for children ages 3 to 6.
