Astronomers Select Top Ten Most Amazing Pictures Taken by Hubble Space Telescope in Last 16 Years

These are so awesome, I wish I could have been there to take the pictures myself!

clipped from treebeard31.wordpress.com Hubble telescope’s top ten greatest space photographs  The Sombrero Galaxy – 28 million light years from Earth The Ant Nebula, a cloud of dust and gas whose technical name is Mz3, resembles In third place is Nebula NGC 2392, called Eskimo because it looks like a face face surrounded by a furry hood. At four is the Cat’s Eye Nebula The Hourglass Nebula, 8,000 light years away In sixth place is the Cone Nebula. The part pictured here is 2.5 light years in years in length (the equivalent of 23 million return trips to the Moon) The Perfect Storm, a small region in the Swan Nebula, 5,500 light years away Starry Night, so named because it reminded astronomers of the Van Gogh painting. The glowering eyes from 114 million light years away are the swirling cores of two merging galaxies called NGC 2207 The Trifid Nebula. A ’stellar nursery’, 9,000 light years from here, it is where new stars are being born.