Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Hubble Space Telescope picture in first 20 years

20 years earlier pic taken by Hubble Telescope


The Hubble Space Telescope was started on April 24, 1990. To rejoice its 20th anniversary, NASA has put on the rampage this image of chaotic action atop a three-light-year-tall support of gas and filth that is being eaten away by the luminous light from close by bright stars. The pillar is also being assaulted from within, as infant stars buried inside it fire off jets of gas that can be seen watercourse from towering crests. This chaotic cosmic pinnacle lies within a stormy stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, situated 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina