Hubble Telescope: Happy Sweet Sixteen!

Posted on April 24, 2006 by

The Hubble Telescope turned 16 today. To celebrate, this cool picture of Messier 82 – a galaxy some 12 million light-years away – was released ba NASA.
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7 Responses

  1. Christopher O'Brien, on April 25, 2006 at 12:05 am said:

    Cool photo!
    Wait a minute…I think I see the Virgin Mary….

  2. Alan Kellogg, on April 25, 2006 at 1:54 am said:

    Alien Space Bats!
    They do exist.

  3. skblllzzzz, on April 25, 2006 at 6:05 am said:

    I have the M81/M82 picture by Robert Gendler on my desktop:
    http://www.astro.uio.no/ita/nyheter/m81_m82/heic0103c_large.jpg
    Very beautiful methinks :-) .

  4. Darrell, on April 25, 2006 at 10:11 am said:

    Can you post a link to the original pic?
    Thanks.

  5. afarensis, FCD, on April 25, 2006 at 11:54 am said:

    Darrell you can find the original pic here at the Hubble Site.

  6. afarensis, FCD, on April 25, 2006 at 11:56 am said:

    Chris and Allan – clearly, it is the Enterprise…

  7. Darrell, on April 26, 2006 at 5:03 pm said:

    Thank You for the link.

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