Top 10 Images from Hubble telescope! *56k diaf*

[taku]

You might have seen these before, but I never get tired of looking at them. Post more if you got 'em. Happy weekend!

#1
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.


#2
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


#3
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


#4
At four is the Cat's Eye Nebula


#5
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 center


#6
the Cone Nebula. The part pictured here is 2.5 light years in length (the equivalent of 23 million return trips to the Moon)


#7
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'


#8
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


#9
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


#10
The Trifid Nebula. A 'stellar nursery', 9,000 light years from here, it is where new stars are being born

[BillyOLDS]

photoshopped

[brassmonkey]

No s.hit, the universe doesnt exist. I agree with billyolds

[Classy]

that last picture is sick!

[POPTART]

BillyOLDS, well ur right

none of these pictures origonally had any color

[DirtyCracker]

people have never been in space and everything we know about space is false. somewhere out there is a race of man watching everything we do laughing. we are only a science experiment and sad to say a horse race for them

[POPTART]

DirtyCracker, hollywood

[DirtyCracker]

POPTART, just like the first broadcast on the moon are you kidding me have you watched that. it looks so fake.

ANNNND THE FLAG IS BLOWING THERE NO WIND ON THE MOON
EPIC PHAILLLL

[POPTART]

DirtyCracker, im with ya

[kyle]

Fake or not, those pictures are RAD!!

[JAM]

DirtyCracker, theres a bar going across the top of it too. Watch the nasa missions that hi def documentary that just came out on discovery. It will blow your mind and show that that shizzle was for real.

[scott a]

U.C. Berkeley found the eye of sauron

if i can find a bigger pic somewhere on berkeley's site I'll post it up. but for now...

[taku]

nice find scott!! I think I found the largest one out there haha

[Guy]

DirtyCracker,




do you where a tinfoil hat to??

[DirtyCracker]

Guy, ya i left it at your house can i get it back

[RUSSIAN]

[POPTART]

fact-
we never landed on the moon

[DirtyCracker]

RUSSIAN, the video that showed the day the shuttle landed on the moon. have you watched the actual footage. the flag is blowing....

im not saying we havent landed on the moon but i think that video is epic phailol

[DirtyCracker]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1UEv2PIzl4&feature=related

moon faked

[taku]

The race to the moon was very important for our country at that time. It wouldn't surprise me if the government would try to fake footage, however that was hardly wind blowing. You've got to be kidding.