Space butterfly
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 | 
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Posted by John under: The Word Of God States
Hum-winger … streams of pink and red gas look like fragile insect wings
A COSMIC butterfly stretches its wings in a stunning new picture from the Hubble space telescope.
“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.”
—Psalms 19:1
Whirl of fortune … snap of a distant galaxy
But the delicate insect is really vast streams of gas racing at over 600,000mph from a dying star.
The image tops several spectacular new snaps taken by the orbiting eye on the sky since it was repaired and upgraded in daring spacewalks by shuttle astronauts in May.
Its new camera is ten times better – and its digital “film” was built by a British company, e2v Technologies of Chelmsford, Essex.
Another dramatic new shot from Nasa’s Hubble family album shows the Cat’s Eye nebula – a cloud of gas heated to millions of degrees around another doomed star in the constellation of Draco, the dragon.
Hubble also peered six million light-years beyond our own Milky Way to capture a galaxy of billions of stars in the Great Bear.
What a gas … Cat’s Eye stares across space
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Andrea says Comment posted on September 09th, 2009
beautiful.
Ernest Gregoire says Comment posted on September 10th, 2009
This makes me wonder what my mansion will look like!
YeshuaAgapao says Comment posted on September 13th, 2009
More Hubble and other space pics for your leeching pleasure:
http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/top100/
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html
http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmg.pl?type=I
Carrie M. Boyer says Comment posted on October 18th, 2009
Makes me want to change my online personnae to “Space Butterfly.”