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Government IT: 19 Years of Heavenly Images from NASA's Hubble Telescope


The space shuttle Atlantis just released the 19-year-old Hubble, repairing and updating the venerable space telescope. NASA hopes the facelift will keep Hubble chugging along and taking additional pictures for five more years. Let's hope so because most of the first 19 years of Hubble's view into the galaxies have been nothing less than spectacular. eWEEK looks back at almost two decades of high-tech star gazing and picks its 19 most favorite Hubble images, one for each year of man's look into deep space. The images include close-up shots of Mars and Neptune, what Saturns rings look like, and the remnants of far-away supernovas.
 
  • 19 Years of Heavenly Images from NASA's Hubble Telescope
    by Roy Mark
  • Dust Band Around the Nucleus of "Black Eye Galaxy" M64
    Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team
  • Spiral Galaxy NGC 4603
    Credit: NASA
  • Gas Pillars in the Eagle Nebula (M16)
    Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, J. Hester and P. Scowen (Arizona State University)
  • The Majestic Sombrero Galaxy (M104)
    Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team
  • Star-Birth Clouds in M16
    Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, J. Hester and P. Scowen (Arizona State University)
  • Giant Disk of Cold Gas and Dust Fuels Possible Black Hole at NGC 4261
    Credit: Walter Jaffe/Leiden Observatory, Holland Ford/JHU/STScI, and NASA
  • An Infrared View of Saturn
    Credit: Erich Karkoschka (University of Arizona) and NASA
  • A Perfect Storm of Turbulent Gases in the Omega/Swan Nebula (M17)
    Credit: NASA, ESA and J. Hester (ASU)
  • Mars: Closest Approach 2007
    Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (Cornell University) and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute, Boulder)
  • Interacting Spiral Galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163
    Credit: NASA, ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI)
  • Rings and Moons Circling Uranus
    Credit: NASA and Erich Karkoschka (University of Arizona)
  • The Eagle Has Risen: Stellar Spire in the Eagle Nebula
    Credit: NASA, ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
  • Springtime on Neptune; 1996 Image of Neptune
    Credit: NASA, L. Sromovsky and P. Fry (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • The Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635)
    The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA)
  • Detail of Saturn's Rings, Disk and Shadow
    Credit: NASA, ESA and E. Karkoschka (University of Arizona)
  • Abstract Art Found in the Orion Nebula
    Credit: NASA, ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
  • SN 1006 Supernova Remnant
    Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
  • Light Echoes from Red Supergiant Star V838 Monocerotis
    Credit: NASA, ESA and H.E. Bond (STScI)
  • Edifice of Gas and Dust in the Cone Nebula
    Credit: NASA, The NICMOS Group (STScI, ESA) and The NICMOSScience Team (University of Arizona)
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