October 2, 2003

The Greatest Show Off Earth


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The Sombrero

The Hubble Heritage team of astronomers, who assemble many of the NASA Hubble Space Telescope's most stunning pictures, is celebrating its five-year anniversary with the release of the picturesque Sombrero galaxy. One of the largest Hubble mosaics ever assembled, this magnificent galaxy is nearly one-fifth the diameter of the full moon. The team used Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys to take six pictures of the galaxy and then stitched them together to create the final composite image.

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Posted by Van der Leun at October 2, 2003 12:14 PM | TrackBack
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Clearly, it's Bolder's Ring. If we'd only got the shot a few thousand years ago, we'd have caught the Xeelee escaping into it.

Posted by: Michael at October 4, 2003 11:13 PM

Just where is that optical space technology when Neolithic people need it?

Posted by: Van der Leun at October 5, 2003 3:37 PM
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