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Hubble's 18th birthday party favors: 59 crisp new images of distant galaxies
Happy birthday, Hubble Space Telescope. It's the 18th anniversary of the Hubby's launch and, to celebrate it, NASA and the European Space Agency have released 59 new images of interacting galaxies. You may not have thought galaxies mingle very much, but they do — they collide, merge with one another to form new galaxies, and trigger the formation of fresh stars. By the time reaches the Hubble or our eyes here on Earth, of course, the event is long over, but we're still witnessing astronomical history all around us.
Click through the galaxy of photos below to see the universe through Hubble's eyes.
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NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, via EurekAlert!
By Lupus at 5:57 AM ON 04/30/08
Is there a zip of all these somewhere????
By jo jo at 9:28 AM ON 04/30/08
simply beutiful
By Anonymous at 12:25 PM ON 04/30/08
we are but specks of dust
By Totono at 1:36 PM ON 04/30/08
"We are but specks of dust" ... Sitting on a clover, held by a giant elephant hehe. No, seriusly, really amazing pics. Makes you think, what else (or who else) is out there? :)
By headfella at 5:52 PM ON 04/30/08
The way I figure it, the cosmos created sentient beings so that it could better comprehend itself.
By FupDuck at 1:05 AM ON 05/01/08
Life clearly imitates art as seen in these beautiful photos. Absolutely amazing.
By robbob7412 at 12:06 AM ON 05/13/08
yes there is a zip file of the photos (be aware, high res. .tiff images!! approx 1024mb) here: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/zip/merging/tiffs_highres.zip
or not as big jpeg files here:
http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/zip/merging/screen.zip
By Lupus at 6:48 AM ON 05/19/08
Thanx Robbob7412!
By pale champane at 2:35 PM ON 09/05/09
What a great and loving creator we serve!
By FAF at 5:54 PM ON 11/18/09
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