Tuesday, May 19, 2009

The Time Machine


The Hubble Space Telescope is a Time Machine
It can see billions of years into the past

The Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300
61 Million light-years away

Eta Carinae Nebula NGC 3372
8 Thousand light-years away

Messier 81 NGC 3031
12 Million light-years away

The Cat's Eye Nebula NGC 6543
3.3 Thousand light-years away

The Eagle Nebula NGC 6611
7 Thousand light-years away

The Helix Nebula NGC 7293
7 Hundred light-years away

Young Stars in Magellanic Cloud NGC 346
210 Thousand light-years away

The Red Supergiant Star Monocerotis V838
20 Thousand light-years away

The Crab Nebula NGC 1952
6.5 Thousand light-years away

Hubble Ultra Deep Field Image
13 Billion light-years away

Click and enlarge this image
and see an estimated 10,000 galaxies
as they looked 13 billion years ago

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