Saturday, June 24, 2006




I am amazed by the pictures taken from the space telescope (Hubble Telescope put up by NASA), as well as those spacecraft fly by various planets such as Saturn. I guess many people are not awared that the space outside our planet looks so colour and beautiful. The picture just above the text (or the bottom one) is one beautiful picture of another galaxy.
  • Blue Star Galaxy
The Hubble telescope's sharp vision has clearly seen - for the first time - hot blue stars deep inside an elliptical galaxy. Hubble confirms that the ultraviolet light emanating from this galaxy comes from a population of extremely hot, helium-burning stars at a late stage in their lives. The swarm of nearly 8,000 blue stars resembles a blizzard of snowflakes near the core of the neighboring galaxy M32, 2.5 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Andromeda.
  • Saturn
The picture on the top shows the sequence of images captured by Hubble Space Telescope from 1996 to 2000, it shows the Saturn's rings open up from just past edge-on to nearly fully open as it moves from autumn towards winter in its Northern Hemisphere.

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