Thursday, March 15, 2018

Hubble's Greatest Hits: National Geographic

Pillars of Creation
Images of the “Pillars of Creation” are among the most recognizable of the thousands the Hubble Space Telescope has created. The butte-like features were captured in the Eagle Nebula, also known as M16.

Source: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150316-50-great-images-from-the-hubble-space-telescope/#/

Peerless Beauty
This iconic Hubble image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1300 is suffused with detail—bright blue young stars, the dust lanes spiraling around the bright nucleus, distant galaxies shining through.

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