Advertisement

25th anniversary of NASA's Hubble (36 images)

Celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 25th year in orbit.



This June 9, 2005 NASA false-color picture shows the supernova remnant of Cassiopeia A. This image is made up of images taken by NASA's, Spitzer Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. UPI/NASA
License photo | Permalink


This composite image released on August 31, 2011 of VV 340 contains X-ray data from Chandra (purple)and optical data from Hubble (red, green, blue). The two galaxies shown here are in the early stage of an interaction that will eventually lead to them merging in millions of years. The Chandra data shows that the northern galaxy contains a rapidly growing supermassive black hole that is heavily obscured by dust and gas. Data from other wavelengths shows that the two interacting galaxies are evolving at different rates. UPI/NASA
License photo | Permalink


This new Hubble Space Telescope photo released by NASA shows a portion of one of the largest seen star-birth regions in the galaxy, the Carina Nebula. Towers of cool hydrogen laced with dust rise from the wall of the nebula. Captured here are the top of a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and the dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars. The pillar is also being pushed apart from within, as infant stars buried inside it fire off jets of gas that can be seen streaming from towering peaks like arrows sailing through the air. UPI/NASA
License photo | Permalink


WAX2003032604 - WASHINGTON, March 26 (UPI) -- This is the third in a sequence of four pictures from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys that dramatically demonstrates the echoing of light through space caused by an unusual stellar outburst in January 2002. The image was taken on 28 October 2002. The image is combined from exposures taken through blue (B), green (V), and infrared (I) filters. rlw/NASA, European Space Agency, and H.E. Bond (STScI) UPI.
License photo | Permalink


Advertisement