TOP
TEN HUBBEL PICTURES...

These
are fantastic
!

Astronomers
Select Top Ten Most Amazing Pictures Taken by Hubble
Space Telescope in Last 16 Years

"...they
illustrate that our universe is not only deeply strange,
but also almost impossibly
beautiful."

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."

Enjoy!

Hubble Telescope's top
ten greatest space photographs.
Awesome!!!

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.

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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.