The Hubble Space Telescope is a robotic telescope located 593 km above Earth's surface. It was launched in 1990 as a joint NASA and ESA project, inaugurating the Great Observatories program. Hubble weighs 11 tons, is 13.2 m long and has a maximum diameter of 4.2 meters. It can obtain higher resolution images than ground-based telescopes.

2. Hubble

3. The Hubble Space Telescope is a robotic telescope
located on the outer edge of the atmosphere, in circular
orbit around the Earth at 593 km above sea level, with an
orbital period between 96 and 97 minutes at a speed of
28,000 km / h. Named as a tribute to Edwin Hubble, was
launched into orbit on 24 April 1990 as a joint project of
NASA and ESA, thus inaugurating the Great
Observatories program.
Cylindrically shaped Hubble weighs 11 tons. Its length is
13.2 m and its maximum diameter is 4.2 meters.
The telescope can obtain images with higher optical
resolution
0.1 seconds of arc.

5. The International Space Station

6. View from inside the ship

7. Hubble

8. First we see the Galaxy Hat, also called M 104 in the Messier
catalog, distance of about 28 million light-years it is considered the
best photograph taken by Hubble

9. Second best is the famous nebula MZ3, called Fourmi, between
3000 and 6000 light years

10. Third is the Eskimo Nebula NGC 2392 located 5000 light
years

11. Fourth, we can recognize the impressive Nebula
Cat's Eye

12. Fifth, here is the Hourglass Nebula located 8000 light years
away, a beautiful nebula with a narrowing in its central
part.

13. In sixth place we see the Cone Nebula, 2.5 light-years

14. Seventh, we find a fragment of the Swan Nebula, located at
5500 light years away, described as "a bubbling ocean of
hydrogen with small amounts of oxygen, sulfur and other
elements"

15. Eighth, a beautiful picture called "Starry Night"

16. In ninth place, two swirling galaxies, the NGC 2207 and IC 2163
located 114 million light-years.

17. Tenth, we see a fragment of the Trifid Nebula, a stellar
cradle to 9000 light-years.

18. More pictures from Hubble

19. Voyager 1

20. Current Status of Voyager 1 (102 A-U)

21. The dwarf planet 2003 UB 313 (Eris)

22. Halley Comet appears every 75 years

23. M16: Eagle Nebula

24. M57: Ring Nebula

25. Nebula RCW 79

26. NGC 2237: The Rosette Nebula

27. M42: Orion Nebula

28. Proto-star

29. Milky Way (the red mark indicates our Sun)

30. Black hole

31. NGC 4414

32. Earth with clouds

33. Earth without clouds

34. The Earth with the moon rising

35. The Earth with the New Moon

36. The Earth with the Full Moon

37. The Sun with the atmosphere

38. Atmosphere without the sun

39. Venus cloudless

40. Venus with clouds

41. Mercury

42. Mars

43. Phobos and Deimos in orbit around Mars

44. Jupiter

45. The 8 closest satellites orbiting Jupiter

46. Saturn

47. Satellites in orbit around Saturn

48. Uranus

49. Satellites orbiting Uranus

50. Neptune

51. Satellites in orbit around Neptune (except Nereides)

52. Nereid and Triton orbits Neptune

53. Pluto

54. Charon orbiting Pluto

55. The Milky Way

56. Words are useless when we are confronted with such monuments of
light and color!
Last is the Eagle Nebula or M16 in the constellation Serpens in the
middle of the starry night. On the inside, clusters of young stars are in
the process of creation, creating a wonderful spectacle of gaseous
emissions.

58. Thème musical: BO de “Blade Runner”
LMG Décembre 2011