Comments on: Amazing Space Photos Taken from the Hubble Telescope

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:23:34 +0000

http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=USRTR2D9GV#a=40

That link holds more pictures (some repeats) and information on what celestial body is what. Some are really interesting and others are just jaw dropping.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 23 May 2012 18:59:38 +0000

As EarthThePlanet pointed out, the Hubble telescope is orbiting the earth. So you’re wrong, these photos are taken from space. If your intended meaning was that they are not taken from a point in space close to the objects being photographed, though, the sentiment is correct.

By: rich

rich — Wed, 23 May 2012 18:32:22 +0000

All Hubble images are photoshopped. The hubble uses three (really 4) cameras to take photos. Each camera is assigned a color (red, blue, green). The 4th is to fill in gaps. You can see how they are made from Hubble’s own youtube channel. This is a quote from the Hubble Site:

Hubble images are made, not born. Images must be woven together from the incoming data from the cameras, cleaned up and given colors that bring out features that eyes would otherwise miss.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:19:49 +0000

Astrobin.com is a really cool website where amateur astrophotographers upload their images. It’s quite amazing what someone can do in their own backyard with a 6 inch refractor scope.

By: Harry Mandangus

Harry Mandangus — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:29:11 +0000

Anyone else see the profile of a human skull in the first image? A flaming moth in the sixth? The eye of Sauron in the eleventh? And a human eye in the fourteenth?

By: EarthThePlanet

EarthThePlanet — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:47:37 +0000

The Hubble Telescope is in space orbiting around the Earth, that is how it is able to get such amazing images.

By: Dimitrios

Dimitrios — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:37:36 +0000

If you’re into astronomy check out this youtube channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/tdarnell