Thread: Views into the space from Hubble

Here are few of the selected photos from Hubble telescope

1. The Sombrero Galaxy - 28 million light years from Earth. The dimensions of the galaxy, officially called M104, are as spectacular as its appearance It has 800 billion suns and is 50,000 light years across.



2. The Ant Nebula, a cloud of dust and gas whose technical name is Mz3, resembles an ant when observed using ground-based telescopes. The nebula lies within our galaxy between 3,000 and 6,000 light years from earth.



3. Nebula NGC 2392, called 'Eskimo' because it looks like a face surrounded by a furry hood. The hood is, in fact, a ring of comet-shaped objects flying away from a dying star. Eskimo is 5,000 light years from Earth.



4. Cat's Eye Nebula



5. The Hourglass Nebula, 8,000 light years away, has a 'pinched-in-the-middle' look because the winds that shape it are weaker at the centre.

6. Cone Nebula. The part pictured here is 2.5 light years in length (the equivalent of 23 million return trips to the Moon).



7. The Perfect Storm, a small region in the Swan Nebula, 5,500 light years away, described as 'a bubbly ocean of hydrogen and small amounts of oxygen, sulphur and other elements'.



8. Starry Night, so named because it reminded astronomers of the Van Gogh painting. It is a halo of light around a star in the Milky Way.



9. The glowering eyes from 114 million light years away are the swirling cores of two merging galaxies called NGC 2207 and IC 2163 in the distant Canis Major constellation.



10. Trifid Nebula. A 'stellar nursery', 9,000 light years from here, it is where new stars are being born.




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excellent pictures. i am interested in astronomy. just rep'd you for that
other adult joke, should have waited for this thread to rep

Originally Posted by Punch Bala

excellent pictures. i am interested in astronomy. just rep'd you for that
other adult joke, should have waited for this thread to rep

adult??????? it was just a joke on a simple salesman's dilemma

wow those are just awesome man :clap:

truth is stranger than fiction,
reality is better than graphics

nice picx mate

Rep++

Nice!

Originally Posted by panchabhut

adult??????? it was just a joke on a simple salesman's dilemma

the criterion for deciding whether that joke is adult or not is
if Luke Skywalker comes back and says he doesn't understand it

:lol:

:lol:

Originally Posted by Punch Bala

the criterion for deciding whether that joke is adult or not is
if Luke Skywalker comes back and says he doesn't understand it

So its the "luke index" that matters

And thanks guys for all the support and love.

Good pics. Were they from Galaxy Zoo. rep+

Luke has gone into mickey mode. his posts are invisible and he
messes up my browser.

-F

p.s good going Panchabhut, now you have made me homesick

Originally Posted by farce

Luke has gone into mickey mode. his posts are invisible and he
messes up my browser.

-F

contradictory ?

Hi punch, i mean farce.

Originally Posted by Punch Bala

the criterion for deciding whether that joke is adult or not is
if Luke Skywalker comes back and says he doesn't understand it

Was this a adult joke? Can't understand this one also. Now I want to retake my rep as I can't understand the joke.

Originally Posted by farce

p.s good going Panchabhut, now you have made me homesick

Originally Posted by strider

Hi punch, i mean farce.

I dunno when farce is goin to have his "sachh ka sammna " , waiting for the day..

Originally Posted by strider

Hi punch, i mean farce.

between punch and me we are 24/5 round the clock.
He's gone to sleep now. I am the current shift ;-)
masaladosa comes in on weekends ;-)

-F

Originally Posted by Punch Bala

the criterion for deciding whether that joke is adult or not is
if Luke Skywalker comes back and says he doesn't understand it

:lol:

Originally Posted by farce

between punch and me we are 24/5 round the clock.
He's gone to sleep now. I am the current shift ;-)
masaladosa comes in on weekends ;-)

-F

what? i am still here, my afternoon nap is after one hour.

This should be called Luke'criterion from now on.

Originally Posted by Punch Bala

what? i am still here, my afternoon nap is after one hour.

I thought since you were up all night admiring your grapes, you
would be sleepy by now.

-F

Simply awesome...There are still many things which are not seen by the hubble...

Originally Posted by Punch Bala

what? i am still here, my afternoon nap is after one hour.

Originally Posted by farce

I thought since you were up all night admiring your grapes, you
would be sleepy by now.

-F

kinldy have a look at your aruval sig and give me feedback.