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Amazing Images From The Hubble Telescope

Here are some of the most amazing pictures from space that I’ve ever seen. There are many more than I have posted here at the DailyNews website

It’s been quite a year for Hubble! New galaxies, colliding stars and more… Check out the magnificent views through NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, released in 2008.

Above, Hubble discovers carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star, an important step along the trail of finding the chemical biotracers of extraterrestrial life as we know it. The Jupiter-sized planet, called HD 189733b, is too hot for life. But the Hubble observations are a proof-of-concept demonstration that the basic chemistry for life can be measured on planets orbiting other stars. Organic compounds can also be a by-product of life processes, and their detection on an Earth-like planet may someday provide the first evidence of life beyond Earth.

Credits: NASA

This is a composite image of Jupiter storms. The background image is from Hubble Space Telescope and shows the turbulent pattern generated by the two plumes on May 11, 2007 (upper left part of Jupiter). The two bright plumes detach in the superimposed small infrared image obtained at the NASA-IRTF facility a month before, on April 5, 2007. Detailed analysis of two continent-sized storms that erupted in Jupiter’s atmosphere in March 2007 shows that Jupiter’s internal heat plays a significant role in generating atmospheric disturbances. Understanding this outbreak could be the key to unlock the mysteries buried in the deep Jovian atmosphere, astronomers say.

Credits: NASA

Astronomers took the first visible-light snapshot of a planet orbiting another star. The images, released Nov. 13, show the planet, named Fomalhaut b, as a tiny point source of light orbiting the nearby, bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Australis. An immense debris disk about 21.5 billion miles across surrounds the star. Fomalhaut b is orbiting 1.8 billion miles inside the disk’s sharp inner edge.

Credits: NASA

A powerful collision of galaxy clusters was captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory. The observations of the cluster known as MACS J0025.4-1222 indicate that a titanic collision has separated the dark from ordinary matter and provide an independent confirmation of a similar effect detected previously in a target dubbed the Bullet Cluster. These new results show that the Bullet Cluster is not an anomalous case.

Credits: NASA

A delicate ribbon of gas is a very thin section of a supernova remnant caused by a stellar explosion that occurred more than 1,000 years ago.

Credits: NASA

Hubble made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough was an important step in eventually identifying signs of life on a planet outside our solar system. This illustration depicts the extrasolar planet HD 189733b with its parent star peeking above its top edge.

Credits: NASA

This image of two interacting galaxies, Arp 147, demonstrated that Hubble was working exactly as it was after going offline in October. The two galaxies. which lie in the constellation Cetus more than 400 million light-years away from Earth, happen to be oriented so that they appear to mark the number 10. The galaxy pair was photographed on October 27-28, 2008.

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