Having
finished our tour of the Solar System I thought we might like to go much, much
further afield & see how the Hubble Space
Telescope sees the universe from its privileged location far, far above the
highest cloud tops. Its unique position allows it to
show us images of the "stars" as we have never seen them before - those tiny
points of glittering light are very often immense galaxies, many times the size
of our "Milky Way" galaxy! They can also be of many different forms &
colours - often very beautiful!
Here are a few
examples:
Triple Spiral Galaxy
Triple Spiral (03-07-02)
Pinwheel
Galaxy The Trifid
Nebula Cat's Eye
Nebula
Dumbbell
Nebula Flame
Nebula.
Hubble Sees the Stingray Nebula
I
thought I might share some photos of some of the Spacecraft that
have made possible many of these images
