As voted by astronomers: The ten best Hubble photographs

William Atkins
Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:05

Science - Space

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In the Daily.Mail.co.uk article by Michael Hanlon (November 23, 2006) entitled “Hubble telescope’s top ten greatest space photographs”, Mr. Hanlon speaks about Hubble and the beauty of these pictures.

To read the article published by Mr. Hanlon, go to http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=418049&in_page_id=1770.

Within the article (“Gallery: The most amazing space photographs in the universe”), Hanlon directs the reader to the actual "Ten Best Hubble" photographs, along with a description of each: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/galleries/index.html?in_gallery_id=9139&in_page_id=1055.

As he quotes Professor Henry Lambright, from Syracuse University (New York): “The beautiful pictures that we see Hubble produce are gripping to everyone who looks at them. They transmit the magic of space in a way that words cannot.”

The Hubble Space Telescope was named after American astronomer Edwin P. Hubble (1889-1953), who made important discoveries in cosmology, especially with regards to the study of the galaxies, and the size and expansion of the universe.

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched on April 24, 1990. As of October 2006, NASA has announced that Hubble will be serviced by an astronaut crew (Servicing Mission-4 [SM-4]) from the Space Shuttle sometime in the last half of 2008. New science instruments and replacement parts will extend Hubble’s life through 2013.

Keep up-to-date with Hubble through NASA’s Web site: http://hubble.nasa.gov/index.php.

Stay abreast of latest activities of Hubble through the Web site of the Space Telescope Science Institute: http://www.stsci.edu/resources/.