The Hubble Space Telescope captures incredible images of the universe

Accuweather - Space ^ | May 15, 2023 | Staff

[Red Badger]

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the unbarred spiral galaxy NGC 5033, located about 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs). The galaxy is similar in size to our own galaxy, the Milky Way, at just over 100,000 light-years across. (Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; Acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt)

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At the center of this image is a monster young star 200,000 times brighter than our Sun that is blasting powerful ultraviolet radiation and hurricane-like stellar winds, carving out a fantasy landscape of ridges, cavities, and mountains of gas and dust. (NASA, ESA, and STScI)

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This glittering ball of stars is the globular cluster NGC 1898, which lies toward the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud — one of our closest cosmic neighbors. (ESA/Hubble & NASA)

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Resembling a wizard’s staff set aglow, NGC 1032 cleaves the quiet darkness of space in two in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. (ESA/Hubble & NASA)

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In the center of this image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849 — and it seems to be smiling. (NASA/ESA)

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Lying about 500 million light-years away in the constellation of Sculptor, the cartwheel shape of this galaxy is the result of a violent galactic collision. (ESA/Hubble & NASA)

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An image of NGC 6326, a planetary nebula with glowing wisps of outpouring gas that are lit up by a central star nearing the end of its life. (ESA/Hubble & NASA)

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Hubble Space Telescope's iconic view of the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula. (Image: © J. Hester/P. Scowen/ASU/HST/NASA)

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In this classic Hubble image from 2000, the planetary nebula IC 418 glows like a multifaceted jewel with enigmatic patterns. IC 418 lies about 2,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Lepus. (NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: Dr. Raghvendra Sahai (JPL) and Dr. Arsen R. Hajian (USNO))

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This is a composite image of Uranus by Voyager 2 and two different observations made by Hubble — one for the ring and one for the auroras. (ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Lamy / Observatoire de Paris)

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UGC 12591 sits somewhere between a lenticular and a spiral. It lies just under 400 million light-years away from us in the westernmost region of the Pisces–Perseus Supercluster, a long chain of galaxy clusters that stretches out for hundreds of millions of light-years — one of the largest known structures in the cosmos. (ESA/Hubble & NASA)

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Ultraviolet light from the dying star makes the material glow. The burned-out star, called a white dwarf, is the white dot in the center. Our sun will eventually burn out and shroud itself with stellar debris, but not for another 5 billion years. (NASA, ESA, and K. Noll (STScI), Acknowledgment: The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA))

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Human eyes can see only a small portion of the range of radiation given off by the objects around us. We call this wide array of radiation the electromagnetic spectrum, and the part we can see visible light. In this Hubble Space Telescope image, researchers revisited one of Hubble's most iconic and popular images: the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation. (NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team)

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This remarkable spiral galaxy, known as NGC 4651, may look serene and peaceful as it swirls in the vast, silent emptiness of space, but don’t be fooled — it keeps a violent secret. It is believed that this galaxy consumed another smaller galaxy to become the large and beautiful spiral that we observe today. (ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Leonard)

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This swirling mass of celestial gas, dust and stars is a moderately luminous spiral galaxy named ESO 021-G004, located just under 130 million light-years away. ( ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario et al.)

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Within the tempestuous Carina Nebula lies “Mystic Mountain.” This three-light-year-tall cosmic pinnacle, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 in 2010, is made up primarily of dust and gas, and exhibits signs of intense star-forming activity. The colors in this composite image correspond to the glow of oxygen (blue), hydrogen and nitrogen (green) and sulfur (red). NASA, ESA, M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI))

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This new Hubble Space Telescope view of Jupiter, taken on June 27, 2019, reveals the giant planet's trademark Great Red Spot, and a more intense color palette in the clouds swirling in Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere than seen in previous years. (NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center) and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley))

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The nebula, officially known as Hen 2-104, is located several thousand light-years from Earth in the southern hemisphere constellation of Centaurus. It appears to have two nested hourglass-shaped structures that were sculpted by a whirling pair of stars in a binary system. (NASA, ESA, and STScI)

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The bright southern hemisphere star RS Puppis, at the center of the image, is swaddled in a gossamer cocoon of reflective dust illuminated by the glittering star. The super star is ten times more massive than the Sun and 200 times larger. (NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) – Hubble/Europe Collaboration; Acknowledgement: H. Bond (STScI and Pennsylvania State University))

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[samiam5]

Lots of cool images, but did you have to photo bomb us with a pic of Uranus right in the middle?

[laplata]

Thank you.

[nutmeg]

Amazing! Thank you for posting all of these incredible images.

[Red Badger]

Your welcome!.

People are always amazed at God’s handiwork!.............

[Red Badger]

👍....................

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

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[alexander_busek]

A TV preacher I saw last Sunday on local TV, said the ‘Universe’ as we know it, is just the ‘visible’ part and there is a whole other part we cannot see where God, Jesus, the Angels and Holy Spirit reside. And it’s even BIGGER!..................

That's the difference between TV preachers and NASA scientists.

NASA scientists do the actual work and show us the actual images.

TV preachers talk out of their hat.

Regards,

[21twelve]

I did a sermon years ago (lay person) and used one of the early images from Hubble. Had a guy at church print it out on a huge poster. I forget most of it now - put it had the terms power and love in it. Maybe grace too?

The power of God to create an amazing universe - but also to create a new person (grace).

And I quipped something about how for the ancients the stars they could see were vast and amazing and full of wonderment. And now even more so with powerful telescopes. I wonder if God didn’t just create it to show us how great He is, and how much he loves us. Like a parent telling their child “I love you THIS much” as they spread their arms out wide.

And God spreads his arms out as wide as the universe.

BTW - many of the earliest scientists were devout Christians. They figured if they could understand creation better, they could understand the Creator better.

[Red Badger]

Psalm 96:13
Let all creation rejoice before the Lord, for he comes, he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his faithfulness.

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Matthew 25:34
“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.

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John 17:24
“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

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Romans 1:20
For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

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Romans 8:19
For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

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[maddog55]

Great pics...

[telescope115]

When I go outside where the sky is dark and can get halfway decent look at the night sky, especially on a summer night, it really becomes obvious what an incredible Creation God made for us to live in.

From the smallest grain of sand up to the night sky, no one-NO ONE can tell me that this was all randomly created. There was too much thought put into all of this. Only a Supreme Being is capable of such.

I’m just a retired machinist, the mark I’ve made in the world is much smaller than some. So many people today don’t look up and wonder about it all, their minds focused on earthly things. There is so much that’s bigger than us, if people would just think about it….

[cymbeline]

Quite a gallery. Nova had a show last night on the Web telescope, the successor to the Hubble. Informative show about the telescope and deep-space astronomy.

[Dan in Wichita]

That’s one of the reasons I got interested in astronomy in the first place.

With a screen name like yours, who could have guessed that!

[xp38]

In my university days there was a visit and talk on historical astronomy by Owen Gingerich. After we got to go to the faculty lounge and continue talking. Hubble at the time was in the planning stages. I asked Professor Gingerich what it might be able to resolve and he speculated maybe Jupiter sized planets in orbit around nearby stars. I don’t think that happened but regardless the results of what Hubble did show were spectacular.

[telescope115]

😁🔭

[Salamander]

*snert*

:D

[Salamander]

Everywhere you look is the beauty of His hand.

[Yardstick]

Who knew giraffes had antennas?

[Salamander]

The advent of omnipresent technobabble has blinded most to the glory of creation.
We have lost the magic of wondering at the night sky.
No more shadows dancing on cave walls, in a world lit only by fire.