Hubble Top Photos

[VincentBikes]

After correcting an

initial problem with the lens, when the Hubble Space Telescope was first

launched in 1990, the floating astro-observatory began to relay back to Earth

incredible snapshots of the 'final frontier' it was

perusing. 

  

Recently, astronauts

voted on the top photographs taken by Hubble, in its 16-year journey so far.

Remarking in the article from the Daily Mail, reporter Michael Hanlon says the

photos 'illustrate that our universe is not only deeply strange, but also almost

impossibly beautiful.'

   Hubble telescope's top ten greatest

space photographs

.

 

 

The

Sombrero

Galaxy - 28 million light years from Earth -

was voted best picture taken

 by the Hubble telescope. The

dimensions of the galaxy, officially called M104, are as spectacular as its

appearance. It has 800 billion suns and is 50,000 light years

across.

  The Ant Nebula, a cloud of dust and

gas whose technical name is Mz3, resembles an ant when observed using

ground-based telescopes. The nebula lies within our galaxy between 3,000 and

6,000 light years from Earth.

 In third place is Nebula NGC 2392,

called Eskimo because it looks like a face surrounded by a furry hood. The hood

is, in fact, a ring of comet-shaped objects flying away from a dying star.

 Eskimo is 5,000 light years from Earth.

 At four is the Cat's Eye

Nebula

The Hourglass

Nebula, 8,000 light years away, has a pinched-in-the-middle look because the

winds that shape it are weaker at the centre.

  In sixth place is the Cone Nebula.

 The part pictured here is 2.5 light years in length (the equivalent of 23

million return trips to the Moon).

The Perfect

Storm, a small region in the Swan Nebula, 5,500 light years away, described as

'a bubbly ocean of hydrogen and small amounts of oxygen, sulphur and other

elements'.

 

Starry Night,

so named because it reminded astronomers of the Van Gogh painting.  It is a halo

of light around a star in the Milky Way.

 

  The glowering eyes from 114 million

light years away are the swirling cores of two merging galaxies called NGC 2207

and IC 2163 in the distant Canis Major constellation.

The Trifid

Nebula. A 'stellar nursery', 9,000 light years from here, it

is

where new stars are being

born.

 

[Jean-Jay]

Fantastic!!!!!

[Robotech]

Awesome pics...

[_BBi]

Briliant.

[jabbathemutt007]

See also:

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/top100/

 

Makes nice wallpaper for your computer.

 

 

 

 

[AndreZA]

I think Chuck Norris can take better pics with just his .5 megapixel cellhone.

 

 

[GoLefty!!]

I don't see any alien space ships

[MintSauce]

Photoshop

[Robotech]

I think Chuck Norris can take better pics with just his .5 megapixel cellhone.

 

 

 

Chuck Norris doesn't need a cellphone...He can draw better pictures...

[dirtrider]

They are there , trust me ! Refer to canabis thread

[Guest Big H]

I recently bought the DVD "Indescribable" on the Passion Talk Series with Louie Giglio. He also uses these pictures to explain the greatness of God. The above photos does not show the photo of the center of the universe. Try and get this one....... INCREDIBLE!!!!!!! Very amazing photos seen in the background of his talk. The song "Indescribable" by Chris Tomlin is also on the DVD.

[Tumbleweed]

They are there ' date=' trust me ! Refer to canabis thread[/quote']

 

did they bring the doobie over the border with them?

[jabbathemutt007]

 

The above photos does not show the photo of the center of the universe. Try and get this one....... INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!

 

Thats because there is no "centre" of the universe:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/centre.html

 

[AndreZA]

I think Chuck Norris can take better pics with just his .5 megapixel cellhone.

 

 

 

Chuck Norris doesn't need a cellphone...He can draw better pictures...

 

true. But that was happened the last ten times he s#x.

 

 

[jaguar]

Chuck Norris also counted those 800 billion suns in the first picture!

[AndreZA]

For some this is the center of the universe.

http://www.stadiumsonline.com/southafrica/loftusversfeld/loftusversfeld1.jpg