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A new eBook seeks to give visually impaired individuals a new appreciation for the deep space images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Take a moment to ponder 25 of the most arresting images of Earth and the moon from space that humankind has ever captured.

[youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fbUiNQ0Buk&w=640&h=390] The «Hubble deep field image» is a point in space whereby a timed image was taken showing that there is hundreds of galaxies in an area of space once thought to be void.

In Acts, Jesus» sending of his apostles to the ends of the earth is illumined with an image of Earth from space taken by the Hubble telescope.

-- It takes the form of an installation representing a bleak room in a hospital, with the social and stark installation based on the power of surveillance (the monitor reminds the viewer of CCTV cameras in public spaces) and indoctrination (the patient cured by the image of the leader).

Such is Arp 273, seen here in a Hubble image taken to celebrate the observatory's 20th anniversary in space.

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The size of a TV will ultimately define not only the viewing area of the image but how much space it takes up.

This montage, released in September by the European Space Agency, includes 210 of the thousands of images taken by Rosetta and the Philae lander and recaps the daring mission to explore the space Space Agency, includes 210 of the thousands of images taken by Rosetta and the Philae lander and recaps the daring mission to explore the space space rock.

This sequence of images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows Comet 252P / LINEAR as it passed by Earth.

* The Pillars of Creation are an iconic image, taken with the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope, making them the most famous of these structures.

[1] Bright spots were also seen, with much less clarity, in earlier images of Ceres from the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope taken in 2003 and 2004.

Using common but sophisticated software like Adobe Photoshop, combined with open access to literally millions of raw images taken by publicly funded space missions of the past and present, many amateurs are finding few technical barriers to creating stunning images.

In its 20 years of operation, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken what are now some of the most famous images in astronomy.

Color and black - and - white images of Earth taken by two NASA interplanetary spacecraft on July 19 show our planet and its moon as bright beacons from millions of miles away in space.

«It thrills me to no end that people all over the world took a break from their normal activities to go outside and celebrate the interplanetary salute between robot and maker that these images represent,» said Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team lead at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. «The whole event underscores for me our «coming of age» as planetary explorers.»

Images of space - age dreams From Russia's cosmonaut training facility to NASA's Apollo control centre, our gallery takes you inside the space industry — but with a twist.

Take a look at the latest image by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Amid controversy about its future in orbit (ScienceNOW, 9 March), the Hubble Space Telescope has captured what may become its defining image: the Ultra Deep Field, the most sensitive photograph of the distant universe ever taken.

«Increasing the size of either the eye box or the displayed image in a traditional heads - up display requires increasing the size of the projection optics, relay lenses and all the associated optics, which takes up too much space in the dashboard,» said first author Colton Bigler, a doctoral student in Blanche's laboratory.

The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping bird's - eye view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is the sharpest large composite image ever taken of our galactic next - door neighbor.

Down, way down below, you can see the Hubble Space Telescope, which takes lovely images and tells us about the structure of the universe.

Now Warren Brown of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and colleagues have used red - shift data and Hubble Space Telescope images to trace the path taken by the hypervelocity star HE 0437 - 5439.

To the left, taken Dec. 5, the Multi Spectral Imager on the European Space Agency's Sentinel - 2 satellite collected data to build a false - color image of the burn scar in Ventura County.

But the amount of land space taken up by cities is actually relatively small compared with the number of people they shelter: satellite image composites show that urban sites cover only 2.8 per cent of the Earth's land; accordingly the UN estimates that about 3.3 billion people occupy an area less than half the size of Australia.

Astronomers found the moon in archived images from the Hubble Space Telescope, which took snapshots of Neptune and everything orbiting it between 2004 and 2009.

It was discovered Saturday, July 7, in images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope as part of a campaign to identify possible hazards to the New Horizons spacecraft, now en route to Pluto for a 2015 flyby.

To take a better galactic census, a team led by astronomer Rodrigo Ibata of the Strasbourg Observatory in France took the most detailed images yet of the space around Andromeda, exposing swarms of faint stars distributed near the galaxy.

But because they had no idea how the particle was oriented in space when each picture was taken, they had no way of stitching multiple 2D images together to create a 3D picture.

The researchers took scans of the plates from a cleanroom at Houston's Johnson Space Center and made images of these scans available for public viewing via the Web.

These two images, taken in 2006 [left] and 2009 by the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite, show the rapid loss of water in central Asia's Aral Sea, which is shared by Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

Previously, astronomers had estimated GN - z11's distance by analysing its colour in images taken with both Hubble and the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope.

This false - color image, taken from the Cassini space - craft, shows Titan through two kinds of filters.

A research team led by Timothy J. Stubbs of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center analyzed images from NASA's Polar spacecraft and the IMAGE spacecraft taken of both the northern (aurora borealis) and southern (aurora australis) lights.

Although these first images are smudgy, the technique could provide advance warning that solar flares and storms will take aim at Earth — warnings that could help electrical utilities or satellite operators plan for possible disruptions and put key instruments into a safe mode, says Ernest Hildner, director of the Space Environment Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado.

Many of the original space suits are too fragile for a traveling exhibit (one taking place in Earth's gravity, at least), so visitors here are treated to near - life - size images, some of them particularly revealing.

SHARP images of Neptune taken by the Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the planet has undergone major changes since the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by in 1989.

Now images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed a large cloud of hydrogen and oxygen — most likely in the form of water vapour — extending from the moon's south pole.

These recently released radar images were taken by the space shuttle Endeavour in 1994 as part of a geologic study of climate change in northwest China.

GLIMPSE360 is a night - sky atlas assembled from over 2 million images taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope.

The interactions between clouds and aerosols are illustrated in this image, taken by retired astronaut Chris Hadfield onboard the International Space Station.

This visible - light image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a pancake - shaped disk of gas around an extremely bright star in our Milky Way galaxy.

PATCHWORK ponds catch the eye in this image of the Utah desert taken by an astronaut from the International Space Station.

In September 1997, Zellner published images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, which provided the first clear look at Vesta.

Led by astrophysicist Paul Crowther of the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom, the group sifted through observations taken by the Hubble Space Telescope earlier in this decade and combined them with new images by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Cerro Paranal, Chile.

The Hubble Space Telescope took an image of the source on 4 April, which located the explosions at the center of a galaxy 3.8 billion light - years away.

Van der Wel wanted to find out more and started to study images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the CANDELS and COSMOS surveys.

Saturn's moon Mimas looks for all the world like the Death Star - the planet - destroying space station from the movie Star Wars - in this Cassini image taken in 2005.

Now they will be able to see the images instantly instead of waiting hours or sometimes days, and the data itself takes about 1 % of the hard drive space as that produced by previous microscopes.

A ring of dust around the bright star Fomalhaut looks uncannily like the Great Eye of Sauron in this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope a few years ago.