Hubble Space Telescope Photos

[Kinvig]

um, obviously not my photos - but really amazing quality photos in this link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/8041583.stm

I would love to know how comes up with the names for them. The sombrero galaxy is breathtaking!

[Ed]

Wow:cool:

[Viney]

They just dont look real

[keithd]

photoshop. fact.

we'd be exceptionally ignorant to think we are the only "life form" in the universe....

ps - nice!

[Geoffrey]

nice to see nasa and the us government are not effected by the financial crisis

[SUPERSTARDJ01]

They are ammazing pics, it's weird a telescope can see that far that clear? hhhmmm

[Spiderman]

photoshop. fact.


Yo're not far worng there really. I watch a lot of the Sky at Night and these are all composite images made up of colour/x-ray/ infa red etc and then touched up to make them look right.

However they are still stunning and i could loose myself in these kind of pics for hours on end. They just leave me speachless.

i did see a bit of the sky at ight where Hubble had zoomed in to 1 section of the "Pillars" and even in that tiny region the quality as astonishing. It wasnt till the image was zoomed out that you coould see just how tiny a part of the whole it was looking at.

Oh and BBC site only gives you a glimps of what this stunnig bit of kit is capable of. http://hubblesite.org/ has a lot more plus some very interesting articles, if thats your ting.

[Jamiebridges123]

All photoshopped. 100%.

[Speedy Claire]

Wow absolutely fantastic

[gettin2dizzy]

Some of you are so hard to please :lol:

[ThEGr33k]

Impressive! I wonder if we would ever reach any of them... I know we havnt even reached another system yet like... but you never know. ha ha.

[cymroboi]

i watched the take off the other night on this site http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/

[Magnum]

I wonder what aliens are like... Something none of us will ever find out! I feel so insignificant.

[stewie]

That one about supernova 1987a, I remember watching a horizon special about that, it was a star called sanduleak, it was in the large magellenic cloud, because of the distance away the star had gone supernova years before but because of the distances involved it had taken the light a long time to reach earth, I seem to remember them saying that in the final seconds of its life it had collapsed from a star approx 1000 times more massive than our sun to an object a few miles across in something like milliseconds, the scale of the event was truly mindboggling.

[Ed]

I feel so insignificant.

Aww - M-boy, don't - :smt020'you are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars - you have a right to be here - and whether or not it is clear to you - no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should...':smt020

[Owenski]

I dont get it,

[Magnum]

lol Ed... it does make you feel insignificant doesn't it though? Think how stupidly massive the iniverse is and how small you are in comparison.
This reminds me of an amazing youtube video - 'Powers of 10' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY

[Ed]

I dont get it,

It's from 'Desiderata' by Max Ehrmann. It was a really cheesy 'song' - I remember it first time round. Can't remeber by who or when but donkey's years ago.

lol Ed... it does make you feel insignificant doesn't it though? Think how stupidly massive the iniverse is and how small you are in comparison.
This reminds me of an amazing youtube video - 'Powers of 10' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY

Haven't watched the vid but yes, I agree - those pillars of gas are fantastic - but then if there is any form of intelligent lifeform out there then perhaps they look at our planet and think 'wow!! awesome!' - but more likely they'd think 'yikes! what a mess!!' And who cares if it is photoshopped, stop bursting the bubble. I mean, the Hubble;)

[Owenski]

Who has the ability to know what the hell thier looking at?
I understand its a photo of something that happened so long ago earth was only a spec in gods eye and all that crap but what i dont understand is how does anyone KNOW what it is their looking at. For all I know thats what happens when a space sparrow crashes into a space elephant (they exist cos I said so!) How can people get those images and say "yeah mate you've got a classic case of supersonic fusion of space dust created by a shock wave, now you gonna put the kettle on my throat is dryer than an intergalactic dust particle on its holiday to its sun?!"

I just dont get it, its too huge to get my head around.

[Owenski]

and another thing.. if they have a telescope that can look billions of miles away and show us all that jazzy stuff, Why has it not looked at Mars to inspect its surface for forms of life and so on? then the next planet and the next if its that bloody good why cant it look over to the next galaxy for life??

[Spiderman]

Aww - M-boy, don't - :smt020'you are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars - you have a right to be here - and whether or not it is clear to you - no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should...':smt020

We are indedd all childern of the stars in a sense. I remember watching a documentary on the planets and it finsihed by telling us this. Something to do with carbon being the most abundant element and how we finaly break down to nothing more than carbon. Hmm, wish i could remember how they worded it cos it was good, lol.

lol Ed... it does make you feel insignificant doesn't it though? Think how stupidly massive the iniverse is and how small you are in comparison.
This reminds me of an amazing youtube video - 'Powers of 10' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY

Wow, trippy man :flower:

[gettin2dizzy]

and another thing.. if they have a telescope that can look billions of miles away and show us all that jazzy stuff, Why has it not looked at Mars to inspect its surface for forms of life and so on? then the next planet and the next if its that bloody good why cant it look over to the next galaxy for life??

They're not visible-light pictures (hence the photoshopping comments)

[markmoto]

stunning as they are i dont believe that they are as hubble took them there must have been edited.

[Owenski]

They're not visible-light pictures (hence the photoshopping comments)

so its not even really a real image? Someones made a load of adjustsments and assumptions as to what it all looks like then created it?

Moon landings in a film studio make more and more sense now.

[gettin2dizzy]

so its not even really a real image? Someones made a load of adjustsments and assumptions as to what it all looks like then created it?

Moon landings in a film studio make more and more sense now.
They're real images in a sense; they making images out of data; but you couldn't look out of your spaceship window and see it, or just 'take a photo' of it. The data is manipulated in to an image form, and yeah colours etc are assigned.

:lol: The moon landings did happen though. Although the nutters over on David Ickes forums may say otherwise

[stewie]

If anyones into astrophotography check this out
http://www.popastro.com/
the sites a bit dry with no appreciable sense of humour but its packed with info

[Owenski]

my head hurts, sleep time.