Best pictures from the telescope "Hubble" (Part One)





Known publication The Atlantic published a collection of the most beautiful pictures taken automatically Observatory, which is almost a quarter century, is in an orbit of our home planet.

"Mystic Mountain" - a pillar of dust and gas, height of three light-years. Carina Nebula at a distance of 7500 light years from Earth.

Best pictures from the telescope "Hubble" (Part One)



Ring Nebula in the constellation Lyra much like the remains of a star like our sun. In the center of the nebula hot core of the star, which is called a white dwarf.

Best pictures from the telescope "Hubble" (Part One)

Sombrero Galaxy at a distance of 28 million light-years from Earth. In diameter, it is about 50,000 light-years.

Best pictures from the telescope "Hubble" (Part One)

Nebula Sharpless 2-106 is only a few years across. Young star in its center its activity creates a nebula an hourglass shape.

Best pictures from the telescope "Hubble" (Part One)

Unique galaxy in the constellation Serpens, named Hoag's Object. Across its length is about 120 thousand light years. Congestion in the center of old stars forms a nearly perfect in form of a ring of young stars.

Best pictures from the telescope "Hubble" (Part One)

Galaxy PGC 6240 rose in the constellation Hydra.

Best pictures from the telescope "Hubble" (Part One)

Runaway galaxy ESO 137-001 is moving through the other galaxies in the cluster Norma, at a distance of about 200 million light years from Earth.

Best pictures from the telescope "Hubble" (Part One)

Gravitational lensing in the galaxy cluster Abell 2218. The essence of the phenomenon lies in the distortion of the light emitted by galaxies. Spots of light - is not the galaxy, and the light coming from them. In fact, the galaxies located behind this light.

Best pictures from the telescope "Hubble" (Part One)

Retin-A planetary nebula, in fact, is the remains of a dying star, and is located about 1,900 light years from Earth.

Best pictures from the telescope "Hubble" (Part One)

Whirlpool Galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici at a distance of more than 23 million light-years from Earth. The star HD 44179 is surrounded by a very unusual structure, which is known as the "red box". "Hubble" dispel stereotypes and showed that a different angle structure mimics H.

Best pictures from the telescope "Hubble" (Part One)

Star Cluster Pismis 24 lies at the heart of a giant nebula NGC 6357.

Best pictures from the telescope "Hubble" (Part One)

Tomorrow sure to see the second and final part of the collection of the most beautiful pictures of the cosmos made telescope "Hubble».

Best pictures from the telescope "Hubble" (Part One)