Hubble was launched 19 years ago. Instead of taking a picture of Hubble for its birhtday, it took a spectacular image of a couple of interacting galaxies (Click to embiggen or download the high res images).
Reprinted with permission from the Half-Astrophysicist Blog.
4 comments:
before i read the description, it looked like an angelfish, still cool even knowing what it really is :)
Cool pic..
Bobster...Will they ever have to go up there and clean the lenses? Isn't there space dust and crap flying around out there?
Space bird crap.
Liz-it DOES look like an angelfish!
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