Originally published August 9 2005
Hubble Telescope finds new galaxies
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The Hubble telescope has find new galaxies varying in shape and size that have never before been seen.
Some are nearby; some are far away.
But one thing many of the hundreds of galaxies have in common is that they've never been seen until Hubble recently captured their light.
This image, which covers a patch of sky only a fraction of the area of a full moon, provides a typical view of the far-off places in the universe.
As some of these galaxies a re billions of light-years away in space, looking down this long corridor of galaxies is like looking billions of years back in time.
The larger, brighter galaxies in the image are large, fully formed galaxies that are relatively close to us.
Several of them are spirals with flat disks that are oriented either edge-on, face-on, or somewhere in between to Hubble.
At least a dozen stars from our own Milky Way Galaxy dot the foreground of this image, the brightest of which is the large red object in the center.
Stars are easily spotted by their diffraction spikes - the long cross hair lines that come from their centers.
These are an image artifact caused when starlight travels through a telescope's optical system.
This image is a composite of multiple single field exposures taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys in Sept. 2003.
The image took nearly 40 hours to complete - one of the longest exposures ever taken by Hubble.
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