Most INSANE Hubble Telescope Images

 

april 24th 1990 was a crucial moment in  the history of astronomy  the space shuttle discovery launched  having on board the hubble space  telescope which we now call  hubble for 30 years hst has supplied  astronomers with astonishing scientific  data about everything  from solar system objects to some of the  most far galaxies in the cosmos  today we will show you the top 20 best  universe photos ever taken  by the hubble space telescope  number 20 the pillars of creation 1995.  perhaps hubble's most famous image  involves part of the eagle's nebula  which we call the pillars of creation  the eagle nebula is a star-forming area  of the milky way  meaning a cold cloud of gas and dust  sufficient for gravity to take hold  and faint material into new stars  ultraviolet light from these newborn  stars disintegrates the nebula  away leaving the beautifully sculpted  pillars in the image  number 19 the karina nebula one of the  milky way's first star factories is the  karina nebula or ngc 3372  which was born about 3 million years ago  when stars first burned in a cloud of  molecular hydrogen  ultraviolet radiation mixed with stellar  winds from these stars  cut out an expanding bubble of hot gas  now as this gas plows into circling  walls of cold hydrogen  it is triggering a second wave of  starburst  number 18 a galactic whirlpool  the whirlpool galaxy or m51 is a  favorite galaxy for many people  and this hubble image presents why being  a  grand designed spiral galaxy the spiral  arms are accurately defined  dotted with pink clouds and sparkling  young blue stars where new stars are  creating  gravitational synergies with a smaller  galaxy likely drive this star formation  at the right side of the image  number 17 the blinking planetary  through amateur telescopes the blinking  planetaries or ngc  6826 a central white dwarf is so bright  that it overcomes the nebula when viewed  directly  the nebula blinks on when looking to the  side  hubble reveals both clearly along with  two red patches near the nebula's edge  number 16 the orion nebula  hobo gives astronomers ringside seeds so  they can watch stars come to life in the  orion nebula  or m42 this dense cloud of dust  gas and young stars lies only 1500 light  years from earth  the hottest biggest stars already have  emerged from their natal cocoons  number 15 the cat's eye nebula  mass loss in aging stars doesn't always  happen following one model  the katsinebula or ngc 6543  shows at least 11 concentric shells  surrounding its central white dwarf  each discharged at 1500 year periods  but around 1 000 years ago the process  modified and forged the bright irregular  shells on the inside  number 14 jupiter's aurora's 2016.  are created when electrically charged  particles stream into a planet's  atmosphere  on earth they are the northern and  southern lights visible at significant  latitudes  jupiter being a much more giant planet  with a vast magnetic field  has proportionally larger auroras hubble  caught jupiter's auroras on a photo  using its ultraviolet instrument  and this picture was made by overlaying  the uv image covering a visible light  photo  number 13 the ant nebula astronomers  aren't sure what creates the narrow  waste that lies between the two glowing  lobes of the ant nebula  so called for its resemblance to the  common insect  some suspect an obscure companion sweeps  material out of this area while others  think magnetic fields do the job  number 12 neptune's dark spot 2019  the voyager 2 spacecraft provided us  with neptune's first images with its  1989 flyby  showing in particular a sizable dark  colored storm on the planet's blue disk  the next hubble pictures didn't show  this grey dark spot  meaning the storm had evaporated however  another great dark spot formed in a new  place on neptune  as seen in this image this behavior  shows how massive storms form and break  up on big worlds  number 11 star cluster ngc 602  the young hot stars in ngc 602 have  scraped out a cavity in a circling cloud  of gas and dust  placed on the outskirts of the milky  way's satellite galaxy  the small magellanic cloud this image  joins hubble observations  shown as red green and blue with x-ray  purple and infrared red data  number 10 it's full of galaxies 1996.  in 1996 astronomers aimed hubble at a  small  unremarkable spot in the sky almost  empty of stars  and made pictures for 10 days to get a  distinct view deep into the cosmos  the 342 photos collected from the  project  make up the hubble deep field survey and  contain about 3 000 individual galaxies  some billions of light years away in  fact almost everything you see in this  image  is a galaxy it reveals the diversity and  evolution of galaxies over the  universe's history  number nine the veil nebula about five  thousand to ten thousand years ago our  ancestors probably witnessed a massive  star exploded  in the constellation cygnus the star's  shreds remain now spanned three degrees  or roughly 75 light years  this close-up hubble image presents a  tiny part of it just one light year  across  at the vale nebula's northwestern edge  number 8 ngc 1300  like our home milky way ngc 1300 is a  barred spiral galaxy that stretches a  bit more than 100 000 light years  in such galaxies spiral arms breeze from  the ends of a star-filled bar  number seven arp-142  tidal forces unleashed by the gravity of  the elliptical galaxy  ngc 2937 bottom distort the last normal  spiral ngc  2936 just above it the spiral's dark  dust leans and arms now splay randomly  across that galaxy's disturbed disc  while blue knots follow the sights of  ongoing star formation  number six a dying star in an hourglass  1996  tiny stars like our sun don't explode as  supernovas  but leave the material as they die some  of these create planetary nebulas like  the hourglass nebula which produces two  interlinked bubbles of gas  the eerie effect happens because hubble  doesn't see color the way people do  hence the image colors correspond to the  appearance of particular types of atoms  or molecules  green for hydrogen red for nitrogen and  blue for ionized oxygen  number five the sombrero galaxy this  giant spiral galaxy locates about 35  million light years from earth on the  edge of the virgo cluster of galaxies  the sombrero or m104 looks like a  traditional mexican hat  since we view its dusty disk from only  six degrees north of the galaxy's  equator  number four the horsehead nebula in  infrared 2013.  the horsehead nebula in orion's  constellation is one of the most popular  objects to look at through backyard  telescopes  where it resembles a horse-shaped shadow  against background stars  this hst infrared image shows newborn  stars hiding  inside the billowing nebula gas like the  eagle nebula the horse head is being  consumed by  ultraviolet light from nearby young hot  stars  number 3 sharpless 2-106  this hourglass-shaped stellar nursery  traverses two light years  and lies less than one degree from the  milky way's plane in the constellation  cygnus  the young star below the center where  the bluish lobes come together  sculpts the surrounding nebula's  intricate shape  number two the colorful crab 20 20.  the crab nebula is the remains of a star  that wins supernova  and was observed across the world in a.d  this image combines optical light from  hubble in yellow  infrared light from spitzer in red an  x-ray light from chandra in blue  revealing the complex internal structure  of this century's old supernova remnant  the matter continues to collide inside  the nebula even after all this time  explaining the tendrils and bubbles you  see in the picture  number one the antennae galaxy's  ngc 4038 and ngc 4039  are blending this cosmic collision gives  birth to billions of new stars  most of which belong to bright blue star  clusters  the large yellowish globes at the upper  right and lower left  are the cores of the original galaxies