A flare-up in a jet of matter blasting from a monster black hole is giving astronomers an incredible light show.Hubble Witnesses Spectacular Flaring in Extragalactic Jet from M87's Black Hole
04.14.09
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The Eagle Nebula for me. These were the first pictures that I viewed that came from the Hubble. Awe inspiring!

http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/nebulae/m16hubble1.jpg
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Quite a challenge!
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My favorite by far is the deep field image. It was taken on a tiny, tiny slice of sky, far far away from the Milky Way. It shows just how massive the universe is, and how many other galaxies are out there. It is a fascinating picture, and it makes you wonder how many other planets are in all those galaxies. http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/booklet/assets/HubbleDeepFieldL.jpg
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1. Cats Eye Nebula: just beautiful

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2004-27-a-web.jpg
2. Black Eye Galaxy: you can almost see the motion - amazing!

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2004-04-a-web.jpg
3. Red spot on Jupiter - storms that have been churning for hundreds of years. According to Wikipedia, the red spot on Jupiter "is large enough to contain two or three planets of Earth's diameter." Crazy!
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Nothing compares with this PALE BLUE DOT:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Pale_Blue_Dot_%28uitsnede%29.png

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

-Carl Sagan

Note: This photo is taken by Voyager 1 and not by Hubble Telescope but this is indeed the best space photo I've ever seen, our planet Earth.
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http://2fotoz.blogspot.com/2009/05/150-best-hubble-space-images-ever.html - The 150 Best Hubble Space Images Ever
and
http://2fotoz.blogspot.com/2009/05/150-best-hubble-space-images-ever-part.html - The 150 Best Hubble Space Images Ever Part 2

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