Spiral Galaxy M100

Hubble sent back this awesome picture of the M100 Spiral Galaxy.

Source: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/pr1994002c/

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Supernova 1987A

An impressive image (from Hubble) of the shock wave and trace ring from Supernova 1987a. What you see here is a ring of gas (probably released 20,000 years before the star went nova), as well as a hot ring of material that is left over from the explosion that resulted from the star's death.

Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/30/image/a/

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Saturn and 4 Moons

Cassini sent back this snapshot of Saturn and 4 Moons this month. What a great picture!

Source: http://www.ciclops.org/view/6472/Quartet_and_Crescent

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Galactic Collision

62 million light-years from here, you could watch one of the largest scale collisions that occurs in our Universe: 2 Galaxies Colliding.

The Antennae galaxies are shown in this image. It's made from 3 of NASA's great Observatories -- the Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), the Hubble Space Telescope (gold and brown), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (red).

Much could be said about this image, but I think it's best to let the Universe speak for itself on this one.

Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/25/image/a/

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Mystic Mountain

This pillar of dust and gas resembles a massive mountain -- that looks like nothing on Earth. It's located in the Carina Nebula, a stellar nursery, which is about 7,500 light-years away. Radiation and winds of charged particles from newborn stars are shaping and compressing this pillar, causing new stars to form inside it.


Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/13/image/a/

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