The Best Hubble Pics

Hubble's picks include sightings no one else and no other instrument can capture. The Hubble picks up, for instance, a heretofore unnoticed black hole, pictures of the Boomerang Nebula and a look so close at the largest asteroid- Ceres - that astronomers now think it might be a small planet and not an asteroid at all.

Not since Galileo started stargazing in 1610 - a precursor of what Hubble picks up now - has anything added to our understanding of the vast world beyond our planet as the introduction by NASA of the Hubble Space Telescope. What Hubble sees for us in clarity has changed our world.

New Hubble pics , photos and news come from places we previously only dreamed about as it orbits 375 miles above our earth. Hubble finds information and photos around the clock, using top-notch point precision, the best of optics, and state of the art technology. Hubble discovers breathtaking views of the world beyond our earth bound telescopes or even any other satellites we have.

Up close views of asteroid belts, black holes, uncharted galaxies, nebula, stars and planet - Hubble sees all the views of these and more.

Originally envisioned and designed in the 1970's, the Hubble Space Telescope wasn't launched until 1990. What Hubble finds almost on a daily basis is priceless.

Just this year, for example, Hubble found a genuine black hole, when it teams up with the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Together with the Cerra Peranol-based ESO Hubble discovered exciting news of a black hole that seems to have no host galaxy. This, say the astronomers, is evidence of a rare collision between a spiraling galaxy and an as yet unexplained object containing a massive black hole. Here Hubble finds a rarity indeed!