Showing posts with label hubble. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hubble. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Hubble: galactic collision


What happens when two massive spiral galaxies — each with a hundred billion stars — slam into each other head-on at hundreds of kilometers per second?

Beauty.

- Discover Magazine [click image to see larger version]

Thursday, September 10, 2009

hubble


Planetary nebula in Scorpius.

I'm speechless. Click the thumbnail above to see a larger version of this photo.