Art Resource - AR922447

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Polishing the mirror of the Hubble Telescope, 1980s.

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Deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope, 1990.

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Testing the Hubble Space Telescope , 1980s.

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The Hubble Space Telescope orbiting the Earth, c1990s.

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False colour image of a solar flare from Skylab, 1973.

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Large solar prominence in extreme ultraviolet light, 1973.

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White dwarf stars in Globular Cluster M4H Bond (STSCI).

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False colour photograph of the sun and the moon, c1970s.

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Full view of Io, one of the moons of Jupiter, 1979.

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Part of the Grand Canyon, Marineris Vallis, on Mars, 1976.

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Remnant of Supernova 1987A.

Remnant of Supernova 1987A. Photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope, Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. Supernovae are massive stellar explosions which throw the outer layers of a star off into space. The quantity of energy released by a supernova can be equivalent to the energy output of the Sun over its entire lifetime. They briefly become what appears to observers as a bright new star, hence the name. Supernova 1987A was first observed within hours of exploding and offered astronomers their first opportunity to test theories of supernova formation against observational evidence. It occurred in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy outside the Milky Way, and was caused by the explosion of a blue supergiant star some 20 times the mass of the Sun.

Unique Identifier AR922447

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 2904px × 3673px

Photo Credit HIP / Art Resource, NY

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