Butterfly in Flight...
The first one on the top left hand corner is the image of gas flying from a dying star. It does look like a butterfly taking flight doesn't it?
The picture on the top right hand corner is one of a group of 5 galaxies known as the Stephan's Quintet located nearly 280 million light years away from Earth.
Picture on the the bottom left hand corner is a panoramic view of about 100 000 stars residing in the crowded core of a cluster lying about 16 000 light years away from Earth.
And the picture on the bottom right hand corner is of gas and dust surrounding a stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula located about 7 500 light years away.
The Hubble telescope first designed and crafted by Princeton astronomer Lyman Spitzer, started off as a joke in 1990. When it was first launched, images could not be taken because the lense was crafted wrongly. Astronauts were sent out and the lense was fixed.
Just recently, upgrades were performed and the Hubble telescope is capturing images such as the ones above with greater clarity.
Don't you just love it?
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