Whirling around Earth at 17,500 miles (28,163 kilometers) an hour, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured some of the most detailed pictures yet of space objects and activities.
"Hubble has done what maybe no other scientific experiment before it had done," - astrophysicist Mario Livio.
To commemorate Hubble's 20th anniversary, NASA has released Hubble: A Journey Through Space and Time, a book of images throughout its history.
The latest pic of the Carina Nebula was spectacular:
Here are some additional jaw-dropping high resolution images over the past 20 years that in my opinion have changed our views of the cosmos:
Astronaut F. Story Musgrave hangs above the world from the robotic arm of the space shuttle Endeavour as he prepares to place protective covers on the Hubble telescope's magnetometers during the space telescope's first servicing mission in 1993.
The multihued clouds of the Orion Nebula swirl before a starry background.
A sunset bathes the space shuttle Discovery in a rosy glow during the second mission to service the Hubble telescope in February 1997.
Hubble revealed a central, dying star blowing out gasses and materials at high speed. The doomed stellar "face" is surrounded by a disk strewn with cometlike objects, which leave behind tails as they streak away from the sunlike star, in the so-called Eskimo Nebula - which sits about 5,000 light-years away.
The Hubble Deep Field image - The reason why String theory exists.
I think this says a lot about our Imaginative Universe.
Also, happy birthday Youtube! It's first video ever turns five today!
Now i'm off to University of Toronto for International Day of Astronomy!
~Cheers.
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