bizzbo
Well-Known Member
hubble (hubblesite.org) has been in operation for 20 years today, good time to flick through some of the incredible images it has captured...
let's start with something close to home..... this crystal clear image of saturn, the blue circle being an aurora, the equivalent of our northern lights...
everybody loves a good star-forming nebula. the 1995 image of the eagle nebula has become iconic:
in celebration of hubble's 20th anniversary, this image of the 'mystic mountain' was released this morning (there are huge versions of this on the site)
how about galaxies. a side on view of the 'sombrero':
a glorious top down view of M101:
there are countless images of galaxies colliding, or the aftermath of collisions
there is some wierd stuff going on out there. this is a black hole shooting out a stream of electrons and sub-atomic particles
this is a startling series of images of a gigantic eruption from a star hundreds of times the size of our sun, V838 Monocerotis. it's unclear what happened, there are some very controversial theories, but whatever it was, it caused it to burn a million times as brightly as the sun.
next one is a planetary nebula, and represents what will happen to the solar system when the sun eventually gives up the ghost
but this is the one that really scares me.... this image represents the oldest light ever captured, from the furthest reaches of the universe ever scanned. a little grainy perhaps, but scientists detected 1500 galaxies in one tiny area alone.
let's start with something close to home..... this crystal clear image of saturn, the blue circle being an aurora, the equivalent of our northern lights...
everybody loves a good star-forming nebula. the 1995 image of the eagle nebula has become iconic:
in celebration of hubble's 20th anniversary, this image of the 'mystic mountain' was released this morning (there are huge versions of this on the site)
how about galaxies. a side on view of the 'sombrero':
a glorious top down view of M101:
there are countless images of galaxies colliding, or the aftermath of collisions
there is some wierd stuff going on out there. this is a black hole shooting out a stream of electrons and sub-atomic particles
this is a startling series of images of a gigantic eruption from a star hundreds of times the size of our sun, V838 Monocerotis. it's unclear what happened, there are some very controversial theories, but whatever it was, it caused it to burn a million times as brightly as the sun.
next one is a planetary nebula, and represents what will happen to the solar system when the sun eventually gives up the ghost
but this is the one that really scares me.... this image represents the oldest light ever captured, from the furthest reaches of the universe ever scanned. a little grainy perhaps, but scientists detected 1500 galaxies in one tiny area alone.
