Hubble

Space
Telescope
as seen
from the
Space
Shuttle.
A galaxy has
been discovered
only ten million
light years away
and has 100
million stars.
This is a NASA Hubble
Space Telescope
ultraviolet-light image of
the planet Venus, taken
on January 24, 1995,
when Venus was at a
distance of 70.6 million
miles from Earth.
Venus is covered with
clouds made of sulfuric
acid, rather than the
water- vapor clouds
found on Earth.
This portrait of
Mars was taken on
March 10. 1997,
just before the Red
Planet made one
of its closest
passes to Earth
about 60 million
miles or 100 million
kilometers.
On June 26, 2001,
when Mars was
approximately 43
million miles from Earth
Hubble snapped this
picture. The colors
have been carefully
balanced to gave a
realistic view of Mars
hues as they might
appear through a
telescope.
This color image of
Saturn was taken
on August 26,
1990, when the
planet was at a
distance of 1.39
million kilometers
(860 million miles)
from Earth.
The false-color image taken January 4, 1998 shows
the planets reflected infrared light. This view provides
detailed information on the clouds and hazes in Saturns
atmosphere.
Here is a picture of
Saturn taken by the
Hubble Telescope
in ultraviolet light.
The glowing
swirling material at
Saturns poles is its
auroral curtains,
rising more than a
thousand miles
above the cloud
tops.
This is the first
true-color
photograph of
Jupiter taken
by the Hubble
Telescope
taken on May
28, 1991.
These spots are
actually a rare
alignment of three of
Jupiters largest
moons Io,
Ganymede, and
Callisto across the
planets face. In this
image, the telltale
signatures of this
alignment are the
shadows (the three
black circles) cast by
the moons.
This ultraviolet
image shows
Jupiters
atmosphere after
many impacts by
fragments of comet
Shoemaker-Levy-9.
This
spectacular
color panorama
of the center of
the Orion
Nebula is one
of the largest
pictures ever
from individual
images taken
with the Hubble
telescope
(1995).
This
picture of
the
Keyhole
Nebula
was taken
by the
Hubble
Telescope
in the
year
2000.
NGC 1512 is a
barred spiral
galaxy located 30
million light-years
away. The galaxy
spans 70,000 light
years, nearly as
much as our
galaxy. This
picture was taken
on May 31, 2001.
Perhaps one of the
most famous and
easily recognized
space objects, the
Eagle Nebula
(also known as
Messier Object
16, M16 or NGC
6611) is a young
open cluster of
stars. The release
date was
November 2, 1995.
Giant
galaxies
werent
assembled
in a day.
Neither
was this
Hubble
Space
Telescope
image.
The Crab Nebula is
a six-light-year-
wide expanding
remnant of a stars
supernova
explosion.
Japanese and
Chinese
astronomers
recorded this
violent event nearly
1,000 years ago in
1054, as did,
almost certainly,
Native Americans.
Located an estimated
13 billion light-years
away, the object is
being viewed at a
time only 750 million
years after the big
bang, when the
universe was barely 5
percent of its current
age.
Galaxy NGC
3949 is similar
to our Milky
Way. This
galaxy has a
blue disk of
young stars
peppered with
bright pink star-
birth regions.
The bright
central bulge is
made up of
mostly older,
redder stars.
In 1995, the
majestic
spiral galaxy
NGC 4414
was imaged
by the
Hubble
Space
Telescope
and is 60
million light
years distant
from our
galaxy.
The Whirlpool galaxy, M51,
has been one of the most
photogenic galaxies in
amateur and professional
astronomy. Easily
photographed and viewed
by smaller telescopes, this
celestial beauty is studied
extensively.
The jumble of galaxies
in this image, taken in
September 2003,
includes a yellow
spiral whose arms
have been stretched
by a possible collision
[lower right]; a young,
blue galaxy [top]
bursting with star birth;
and several smaller,
red galaxies.
Two spiral galaxies pass by each other like majestic ships in the
night. Trapped in their mutual orbit around each other, these two
galaxies will continue to distort and disrupt each other.
This image is of an
expanding halo of
light around a
distant star, named
V838 Monocerotis.
The illumination of
interstellar dust
comes from the red
supergiant star at
the middle of the
image, which gave
off a flashbulb-like
pulse of light.
 Internet Resources

http://hubble.nasa.gov/index.php

http://hubble.nasa.gov/multimedia/astronomy.php

http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/gallery.html