Have a look at this ..... it's truly amazing!

Astronomers Select Top Ten Most Amazing Pictures Taken by Hubble Space Telescope in Last 16 Years

After correcting an initial problem with the lens, when the Hubble Space Telescope was first launched in 1990, the floating astro-observatory began to relay back to Earth, incredible snapshots of the "final frontier" it was perusing.

Recently, astronomers voted on the top photographs taken by Hubble, in its 16-year journey so far. Remarking in the article from the Daily Mail, reporter Michael Hanlon says the photos "illustrate that our universe is not only deeply strange, but also almost impossibly beautiful."



Enjoy!

Hubble telescope's top ten grea-*test*-('") photographs



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.



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.


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.



At four is the Cat's Eye Nebula



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 centre.


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


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'.



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


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



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

Truly amazing pictures. Then some say that God does not exist. I feel like a hic-up.

your right, if you look closely in last picture it sais:

" product made in Heaven"....


they are amazing pics, but i bed to differ, it doesn't prove god exists or not....or at least not as we comprehend him...

God exists and you'll like it. Now post more pics before I greek slap you.

I guess this one has been used in the cover of a Pearl Jam album. Binaural.

you going to convert me? trust me, you don't want a Deman in the Muslim faith...

Islam, Christianity, or judaism are all based on the belief of God. We just pray in different ways. Im not trying to convert you to Islam, I am trying to remind you that there is an Allmighty. He's not up there in the sky playing with a Rubick's cube but he is up there building the universe.

Incredible, to the point you wonder is it real or what

Great pics. For those interested in astronom, I recommend the new version of Google Earth. It also has a sky map. You can spend hours upon hours just zooming in parts of the night sky and watching the starts.

Its got a flight simulator too, although very very basic.

granted Kaya....but i still don't agree that the wonder of the universe is proof that God Exists....beyond again being a matter of faith....

As i said, i do like to believe there is a higher being, regardless of what we call him or this force that hold sway over the way of life etc....i don't believe it is as the judao- Christian - Islamic dogma makes out...

either way, the marvel of the Universe doesn't need the consideration of its creation to be awe inspiring it just is....

I remember I posted those pics in the old GT-forum. Truly amazing.

"Impossibly beautiful"

Yeah...just about sums those pictures up for me

Thanks Mythos. Very cool indeed. Someone said: "The more I learn, the more I understand that I know nothing." I understand this the older I get.