Breathtaking Hubble pic: Eagle Nebula (slip the surly bonds of earth & touch the face of God)

NASA photo via Yahoo ^ | 4/26/05

[Wolfstar]

A new view of the Eagle Nebula, one of the two largest and sharpest images Hubble Space Telescope has ever taken, is released by NASA for Hubble's 15th anniversary April 25, 2005. The new Eagle Nebula image reveals a tall, dense tower of gas being sculpted by ultraviolet light from a group of massive, hot stars. During the 15 years Hubble has orbited the Earth, it has taken more than 700,000 photos of the cosmos.

[RadioAstronomer]

Wanting to know more.

Ask away. I love to teach. :-)

[nmh]

Thanks for posting these.

What word can really capture the awe of Him?

[Wolfstar]

That is about the nicest thing said to me here on FR.

I meant every word, and the compliment to you and those who work on space projects is richly deserved.

Thanks for your confirmation that shuttle issues are the main reason Hubble won't be repaired. It's tragic, although I understand the reasons.

[rahbert]

the sta-puft man!

[Wolfstar]

These photos just leave me agog.

Yes. Well said.

[Wolfstar]

Ask away. I love to teach.

Great! Thanks. Do you know if there are any Hubble or other quality images of the region of space where the star (or is it star system) Lupus -- the wolf -- is located? Even a star map showing it's location would help.

[sdpatriot]

beautiful! (understatement of the year)

thanks for posting

[Blood of Tyrants]

That's okay. Just take two bare wires, plug them in to an outlet, and touch them together so they spark with every other word and I will understand just fine. ;^)

[Blood of Tyrants]

Freeper RadioAstronomer says that some of the Hubble images he views are up to 500 mb in size!

[RadioAstronomer]

Whoops. Some of the comercial/science space images I work with are up to that big. Typically, the Hubble's are not that big.

Sorry :-(

[RadioAstronomer]

Here ya go. :-)

http://www.astrofilitrentini.it/mat/costell/lup_e.html

http://www.astronomical.org/portal/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=50

http://www.astromax.com/con-page/southern/1986-centaurus.jpg

[Focault's Pendulum]

Ask away. I love to teach. :-)

You should never ask that while I'm floating around here.

[RadioAstronomer]

Another fun link:

http://weblore.com/richard/1006_supernove.htm

[Wolfstar]

You'll never know how grateful I am for these links. My screen name is Wolfstar for a reason. :-)

[RadioAstronomer]

:-)

[Wolfstar]

The photo is beautiful, and I will keep it. Not as spectacular, of course, as photos of nebula or whole galaxies, but beautiful nevertheless. Now I need to learn to find it in the night sky.

[RadioAstronomer]

Glad you liked. I will see if I can find some better ones tomorrow. :-)

[dennisw]

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? .....yep

[cliff630]

The Eagle Nubula reminds me of the painting
in the Sistine Chapel,
where God's finger touches Adam's lifeless finger.

[dennisw]

Hasn't Whirlpool owned by Ford?