Two new Hubble stunners!

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Two new Hubble stunners!

Post #1by Reiko » 01.10.2009, 20:26

Those magnificent images are of the galaxies NGC 4402 and NGC 4522, respectively, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (from before the recent repair mission). They’re both spiral galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, the nearest large collection of galaxies to us, roughly 60 million light years from Earth.

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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badas ... -stunners/

So beautiful! :)
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Re: Two new Hubble stunners!

Post #2by BobHegwood » 01.10.2009, 23:43

Hey, thanks very much for sharing...

Very cool. :wink:

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Re: Two new Hubble stunners!

Post #3by Asymptote » 08.10.2009, 22:05

That is amazing...

On Earth, dust and gas are mundane. In space, they're the most beautiful things in existence...
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Re: Two new Hubble stunners!

Post #4by PlutonianEmpire » 09.11.2009, 05:50

Darn, I read it as "Two new habitable stunners!" :cry:
Terraformed Pluto: Now with New Horizons maps! :D
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