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Hubble celebrates 15th anniversary with spectacular new images   This image of the spiral galaxy M51 (NGC 5194)was taken in January 2005 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy is nicknamed the Whirlpool because of its swirling structure, and is located 31 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici.
The small, yellowish galaxy at the outermost tip of one of the Whirlpool's arms is called NGC 5195. The Eagle Nebula  This image of the Eagle Nebula, M16, was taken in November 2004 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. It shows a billowing tower of cold gas and dust, 9.5 light-years high, rising from a stellar nursery. Stars in the Eagle Nebula are born in these clouds of cold hydrogen gas, and the tower may be a giant 'incubator''for those newborn stars. Release date: 28 April 2005 |