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more about #hubblespacetelescope more comments → stevok: Love the Hubble Deep Field Pics. Here's an animated flythrough of the Ultra Deep Field more » Hahaue: I'm just... I'm speechless. There are no words for the sheer beauty of that image, just as there are no words for the crushing terror when you try to ... more » acrobatic rabbit: i want to go to there. more » rikarus: wow amazing and the scale of things are beyond comprehension...amazing more » Kitradu: I'm glad I'm among this crowd on io9...it boggles my mind and saddens me deeply that there are people who could look at this image and be all "so what... more » burlybax: This photo makes the think of the MIB marble scenes. Awesome. more » Darklighter: I wholly approve of more io9/Bad Astronomy crossover. more » shaunmcilroy: Turn your head to the left and it looks like Jon Pertwees head from the old credits to Doctor Who. more » Malloc: The 4.6Mpixel version from the Bad Astronomy Blog makes for a great wallpaper with a bit of photoshop cleanup. Great for when you need a reminder for ... more » enderwiggin13: There's billions and billions of stars, billions and billions of specks... more » Bootknife-Jackson: and God saideth, "i need a new pair of pants." BTW- what does this look like in the visable spectrum? #space more » closeencounter: Oh, look at the pretties!! #space more » veeerules: The only problem is that I can't decide which one should be my new background. NASA has too many quality options. Trying No. 4 for now. #space more » DraconisXC: OH GOD I CAN SEE FOREVER #space more » icelight: Oh #spaceporn posts. How efficiently you come up with new wallpapers for me. more » -
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People In These Galaxies May Have Pointed Their Telescopes At The Big Bang
The Hubble Space Telescope's newly installed Wide Field Camera 3 took the deepest image of the universe ever in infrared light. The reddest and faintest galaxies date from just 600 million years after the Big Bang. More » -
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A Galactic Jam Session To Celebrate 400 Years Of Stargazing
It was the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first telescopic view of the heavens the other day, and NASA unveiled this incredible panoramic view of the center of our galaxy. It's a composite of images from all of NASA's great observatories. More » -
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The Stormy Heart Of The Pinwheel Galaxy
This area near the core of the Pinwheel Galaxy turns out to be bursting with newborn stars, some only a few million years old. And there are about 60 supernova remnants, showing the full stellar life-cycle. [Hubble via Wired] -
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Dying Stars, Soaring Nebulas And Clashing Galaxies Have Never Been Brighter
A butterfly-shaped nebula, NGC 6302, surrounds a dying star. It's just one of four brain-shattering images from the new wide-field camera aboard the upgraded Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble's back in business, baby! Click through for the rest. More » -
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Is NASA Acting Out Danny Boyle's Sunshine For Real?
Award-winning space photographer Thierry Legault traveled to Florida to take this picture of the Space Shuttle Atlantis passing in front of the sun. And click through to see Atlantis and Hubble meeting in the sunshine. More » -
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Two Space Shuttles Prepped For Launch, In One Of Their Very Final Missions... To Probe Our Cosmic Origins
Later today, Space Shuttle Atlantis will be lifting off from Florida for the last ever servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Today's mission also marks the 30th mission for the Orbiter, which first launched in October of 1985 with STS-51-J. More » -
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NASA Preps Space Shuttle For Possible Rescue Mission
It might take two space shuttles to complete NASA's next mission: making final repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope, and ensuring our supply of space porn. More » -
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A Wounded Galaxy Sings With Light
Another galaxy smashed through the heart of the Cartwheel Galaxy 100 million years ago, and today the Cartwheel remains one of the most powerful UV-emitting galaxies near us, as that blue outer ring shows. More » -
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Hubble Captures Four Moons Transiting In Front Of Saturn!
The opportunity to capture a quadruple transit, when Saturn's ring plane is nearly "edge on" as seen from Earth, only happens every 14 to 15 years. [Hubblesite] -
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NASA Finds Saturn's Missing Moon
Every one of Saturn's rings has had a known moon — except the mysterious "G" ring. Now NASA's Cassini Space Probe has found the planet's 61st satellite. Meanwhile, you've voted for your next space-porn fix. More » -
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A Galaxy Shines In Every Wavelength
How do we love spiral galaxy Messier 101? Let us count the ways. We love the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared image, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory's blue X-ray light, and the Hubble's yellow visible light. More » -
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Our Galaxy's Core Is Seething with Stars
When you imagine the center of our galaxy, you think of a howling void (with that famous super-massive black hole at its center.) But this picture, the sharpest yet, shows a center teeming with stars. More » -
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The Killer Eye In Space
The Hubble Space Telescope went back online, and it was just in time to warn us about the deadliest threat we've faced so far — the giant Eye In Space. Here it is, staring out at us from a mere 400 million light years away. More » -
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More Space Porn On The Way As Hubble Restarts
NASA's on-site repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope may have fallen through until next year, but luckily NASA engineers have figured out a way to fix the Hubble remotely. Which means we could soon be getting more stunning images like this one, of Comet Holmes. More details, and a few of our favorite recent Hubble images, below the fold. More » -
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This Galaxy Screams Across The Void
The galaxy NGC 1275 has long commanded attention because it emits such strong radio waves and X-rays. And new images of the galaxy, at the heart of the Perseus cluster, paint a super-violent picture of events at its heart, thanks to the black hole at its exact center. This image combines optical imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope (red, green and blue) with X-ray data (soft violet) and radio waves (red). Click through to see X-ray and radio images separately. More » -
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Birthing Stars Tear Into A Nebula With A Fierce Beauty
Here's a detail of a new image the Hubble Space Telescope released to celebrate its 100,000th orbit of Earth. It shows the "firestorm" of star creation in the nebula near star cluster NGC 2074. The three-dimensional image shows off "dramadramatic ridges and valleys of dust, serpent-head 'pillars of creation,' and gaseous filaments glowing fiercely under torrential ultraviolet radiation," says NASA. The high-energy radiation from all those hot young stars is slowly eating away at the wall of the nebula. Click through to see the whole thing. More » -
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Hubble's Demolition Derby Of Galaxies
A smaller galaxy blasts through a larger one, like a mega-bullet, sowing disruption in its wake, in this image of Arp 148. The Hubble Space Telescope released 62 images of galaxies smashing into each other, to celebrate its 18th anniversary in space. Galactic collisions were more common in the early universe than they are today, and they're not jjust wanton destruction: they also turn on quasars and jumpstart the birth of stars. A hurtling galaxy would also make an awesome weapon, if you could figure out how to propel it. Click through for a gallery of our favorite galaxy-crashes from Hubble. More » -
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Airbrushed Space Pics Are Abstract Art
Is this art? This picture of the Cat's Eye Nebula, and other images from the Hubble Space Telescope, are hanging at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. The exhibition of science photos has made people question whether a photo taken by a machine can be art. But the more you examine that question, the more you realize how artificial these photos really are. More »
