This is a collection of new images taken from the Hubble telescope. These are truly spectacular images and i find it awe inspiring that nature can create scenes like this.

http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/gallery.html

Wow!

Nice link, mate. Awesome pics.

Absolutely stunning ...great link, thanks!

Gonna put a lot of people who design covers for rock albums out of work:D

I've been looking at them for ages. At first i didn't believe they were real but how could you make up images like that?

Yeah, I know what you mean. They have an airbrushed quality. They'd sit well on the front of any 70's prog rock album.

It depends upon what you mean by "real".

After reading a lot of the background information on the site, I am slightly disappointed to learn that we should not expect to see these views with these colours when we next take a spin around the universe.

Many of the colours are artificially allocated to radiation wavelengths for interpretation and visualisation purposes.

Yes, some of the wavelengths are correctly allocated the appropriate visual spectrum colours but some of these images (or parts of these images) are of radiation recieved that is not normally visible to the human eye.

Wonderful, and beautiful, none the less!

And here is a picture of Earth at night. I think we need to turn our lights out more :?
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg

This was my desktop background for a while last year.

Another good image - but how come it was night all over the earth at the same time?:confused:

Amazing, it's a bit depressing that these are places we will never actually visit though.

WWWOOOWWW!! Nice one.

Originally posted by vidster
And here is a picture of Earth at night. I think we need to turn our lights out more :?
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg

Agreed. But it gives us a map of where to go if we want some real peace and quiet. thanks.

where's heavan ?

Originally posted by deadgobby
where's heavan ?

you tell us buddy
:confused:

Are these shots from KINGDOM on a saturday night? The things they can do with lights and fireworks!

These pics are great!!!!

Im always amazed by things like this. They normally set me off on some random thoughts about what is out there (in the universe). These are really good ones.

Originally posted by miniminch
Are these shots from KINGDOM on a saturday night?

No, silly, can you see a giant lumpy asteroid in a bra-top and mini-skirt ?

Originally posted by nick2
No, silly, can you see a giant lumpy asteroid in a bra-top and mini-skirt ? strangely, yes (http://heritage.stsci.edu/2001/05/index.html) :cool:

Originally posted by miniminch
strangely, yes (http://heritage.stsci.edu/2001/05/index.html) :cool:

thats what happens when you light a fart after 15 bottles of Bacardi Breezer and a kebab, not a pretty sight.

If you like these pictures, you should check out a book called "Heaven and Earth" (Phaidon Press). It's a hefty tome with jumbo, page filling photos of the microcosmically small (ie. an atom) to the macrocosmically mindblowers that the Hubble telescope, and others, have authored. Perfect coffee table fodder to wow your friends with.

I love these pictures, but what really does my head in is the mind boggling distances to these places. Some of these pictures are of galaxies over 400 million light years away!!

Originally posted by Norbo
I love these pictures, but what really does my head in is the mind boggling distances to these places. Some of these pictures are of galaxies over 400 million light years away!!

What twists your melon even more is that these things might not even be there now, were seeing them as the were thousands of years ago.

WONDERFULL PICTURES!!!!! (Especially the earth @ night one)

Its really amazing what can be seen with a powerfull telescope :)

And to think what those pics represent is a microscopic slice of the cosmos.

This is a collection of new images taken from the Hubble telescope. These are truly spectacular images and i find it awe inspiring that nature can create scenes like this.

http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/gallery.html

There's a nice picture of Uranus on there mate :D