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We all need a little science. AND IT IS BEAUTIFUL... .....
Astronomers Select Top Ten MostAmazing Pictures Taken by HubbleSpace Telescope
in Last 16 Years
'...they illustrate that our universe is not only deeply strange, but also
almost impossibly beautiful.'
Michael Hanlon/AH (Nov 25th, 2006)
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 snap shots 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.
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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