Ten Most Amazing Pictures Taken By Hubble Space Telescope
Colors, Photography September 29th, 2008
TEN MOST AMAZING PICTURES TAKEN BY HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
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.
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September 30th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Oh these are the greatest Picture collection.It shows everything about the universe.
September 30th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Beautiful photos!
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:55 am
Its a best and beautiful GOD creation.
December 19th, 2009 at 3:57 am
when the mortal ego has confined the world to madness, destruction, greed and nonsense, these photos bring about the immortal visions of creation that mortals cannot ignore or hide from…
December 25th, 2009 at 11:44 am
That is awesome. Can I get more clear pictures?
January 27th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
That’’s what God sees when he look trough His window.
February 25th, 2010 at 12:13 am
I’m speechless!
March 29th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
I wonder what someone in another galaxy looking at us is saying. Makes you wonder