Saturday, April 25, 2015

Hubble photos - 25 Years




Spiral Galaxy M101
Spiral Nebula
Mars Approaching Earth
Mars
Can you believe it has been 25 years sine they launched the Hubble Telescope?  And remember the problems they had once they looked at the first photos?  They were all blurry!

We all thought the governments $36 million was wasted by some idiots who forgot to test the lens!!

But they worked that out with a set of "glasses" for the camera
The Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543)
Cats Eye Nebula
and black holes were proven, black energy was discovered, and thousands upon thousands of photos of galaxies far, far away have shown us the beauty of the not so near places in our neighborhood.
The Orion Nebula
Orion Nebula

Check out some photos here

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/


3 comments:

  1. The colors, shapes and contrasts are amazing, aren't they? Love that you call such far-away places the neighborhood!

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  2. What a beautiful neighbors they make.

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