07 December 2009

The Sombrero Galaxy


Voted the best* picture taken by the Hubble telescope. Click to enlarge the photo (or better yet, go to this high-res photo at Wiki), and then while gazing at it, consider that this ONE galaxy contains the mass of 800 BILLION suns. A humbling thought.

*This may be photographically or artistically the best, but the most important is still the "deep field" photo. Watch the video at the link.

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