"Out of this World" Photographs

[82Rigger]

Here's some photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
that I think you will enjoy.

Pretty spectacular!






The Sombrero Galaxy - 28 million light years from Earth
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.









The Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543)
in the constellation Draco, is 3,300 light-years from Earth.









Colliding galaxies in the constellation Canis Major. 114 million light years from Earth.









The Cone Nebula in the constellation Monoceros. 2,600 light years from Earth.









The Eskimo Nebula is 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.









The Hourglass Nebula in the constellation Musca is 8,000 light-years from Earth.









The Omega Nebula in the constellation Sagittarius is 6,000 light-years from Earth and is
a "dust cloud" composed of hydrogen and sulphur gases.









The Starry Night Nebula is so named because it reminded astronomers of the Van Gogh painting. It is a halo of illuminated gases around a star in the Milky Way.









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