Amazing New NASA Images From Hubble Telescope (PHOTOS)

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Vote and Share Choose Your Top 5 Not My Fave. Amazing! Now Make Your Own Top 5 And Share with Your Friends RANK: AVERAGE:  OUT OF 10 From NASA: "What resemble dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The gas is tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour -- fast enough to travel from Earth to the moon in 24 minutes!"

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[tbirdalum]

Now, I know for sure that # 1 is two nude women hugging each other.

[helonias]

Just look at all those galaxies in #5

I hope there are civilizations smarter than us.

Just gotta be.

[StephenDedalus82]

It's just God winking!

[jsarets]

Advances in the fight against food poisoning, new methods for delivering medicine to cancer cells, and better materials for future spacecraft are among the results published in a NASA report detailing scientific research accomplishments made aboard the International Space Station during its first eight years.

The report includes more than 100 science experiments ranging from bone studies to materials research.

One of the most compelling results reported is the confirmation that the ability of common germs to cause disease increases during spaceflight, but that changing the growth environment of the bacteria
can control this virulence.

Another experiment produced a potential medical advance, demonstrating a new and powerful method for delivering drugs to targets in the human body. Microgravity research on the station was vital to development of miniature, liquid-filled balloons the size of blood cells that can deliver medicine directly to cancer cells.

The report details 22 different technology demonstrations, 33 physical science experiments, 27 biological experiments, and 32 experiments focused on the human body.

[plooger]

I, for one, am grateful that Bush wasn't successful in shutting-down the Hubble.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/mar2004/hubb-m13.shtml

[DickyTrik]

While the images are amazing, funding space exploration is a LOW priority. We have so many people who don't work, surely we must help them FIRST, then examine which of society's ills should get our tax money next.

[CollinJE]

yeah attack the 1/2 of 1% we spend on NASA.

That is where the waste is.

[jsarets]

We could put people to work in high-paying aerospace jobs...

[DickyTrik]

Well elections have consequences, so for all you neo-cons, NASA is finally DONE! Go build a 'nuculor' reactor or send poison over the houses of minorities!

[organicthemepark]

Miraculous . . . grounds us all in our mortality and our unlimited imagination to explore the unknown.

[mergina]

Magnificent....Take me away....Engage.

[sibster]

wow....beautiful, mind-boggling. Bit depressing to think that you might never to get to explore the realms of space.

[Tumpal Silitonga]

Amazing. God is cool...

[nuff said]

Even if color-enhanced, that we can see parts of our universe that we'd never be able to see otherwise is so amazing. One might even say it's "other-worldly". :-)

[GrumpyOldGeek]

Few realize just how much the space program helped to advance technology. Up front, new and improved technologies and inventions that emerged from the space program were to be made publicly available at no charge. This included royalty-free patents. The list includes an astonishing number of fundamental technologies and discoveries covering nearly every corner of science, biology, medicine, physics, optics, communications, geology, energy, etc....

The Butterfly image from Hubble is actually as it looked 3,800 years ago, We are literally looking back in time, but less than half way into our own back yard.

No business or research organization can justify a huge investment to do long-term fundamental research with unknowable results. It is a fundamental duty for government to promote and provide such funds for fundamental research. It is for the permanent benefit of society, civilization, and humankind.

Kerplunk.

[plooger]

One word...

Tang.

'nuff said.

p.s. Excellent, brief statement for the case of government research. The Internet is another example.

[HekmabaJuzimax]

These photos are paintings done by NASA artists to cover up the fact that the Universe is only one light year across and decreasing in size. Here is the proof:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IjNl1evQug

[ModernTimes1]

intellectual pygmy.

[lthuedk 1]

Under the atmosphere and using a 4" refractor at Joshua Tree N.P.

http://www.light-to-dark.com/omega_c_10d.html

[helonias]

Way cool

[lthuedk 1]

Thank you!

We are looking forward to our October gathering (twice a year), very clear skies, lots of turkey and wine and great friends. We average 25 attendees at Cottonwood Campground but have fed 45 and had food left over.

Stragglers welcome, with or without telescopes, on the New Moon weekend.

I wish more people would take the time to introduce their kids to see the really big picture, away from the politics and noise. Humbling and inspirational the night sky is, and much more.

Perhaps we will see you one day-or night-under the stars.

[ModernTimes1]

"Earth is the cradle of humanity, but we cannot forever live in our cradle."
Russian Space pioneer Tsiolkovsky.

[instagladiator]

Hypothetical.

[plooger]

Not hypothetical at all. Humanity formed on Earth, and life on this planet will most certainly end, at some point. The only unknown is when.