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If you have not visited the Hubble  astro site you have probably  seen one of the incredible pictures interpreted from the mass of data coming from the Hubble telescope. Just in case you have not seen any -take a look at these recent images  based on Hubble data. You may also like to celebrate 20 years of HUBBLE and marvel, that data is  coming from’the edge of the known universe‘ -something to think about!





star leaves milky way

JULY 22, 2010: A hundred million years ago, a triple-star system was traveling through the bustling center of our Milky Way galaxy when it made a life-changing misstep. The trio wandered too close to the galaxy’s giant black hole, which captured one of the stars and hurled the other two out of the Milky Way. Adding to the stellar game of musical chairs, the two outbound stars merged to form a super-hot, blue star.

This story may seem like science fiction, but astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope say it is the most likely scenario for a so-called hypervelocity star, known as HE 0437-5439, one of the fastest ever detected. It is blazing across space at a speed of 1.6 million miles (2.5 million kilometers) an hour, three times faster than our Sun’s orbital velocity in the Milky Way. Hubble observations confirm that the stellar speedster hails from our galaxy’s core.

and now some dark energy..


I think if you want young people to be interested in science or just to marvel at the space beyond our seemingly ‘shrinking world’ then it is certainly worth getting them to explore hubble images and just imagine….