in the year 1990 nasa launched the most powerful telescope ever developed into space the hubble
space telescope they didn't know it at the time but this telescope was going to cause a massive
shift in how scientists looked at our universe for the first time in the history of our species we
were able to see deeper into space than ever before what astronomers believe were empty
areas in the sky turned out to be filled with millions upon millions of galaxies when hubble
took a long look into the void by focusing hubble's lenses on a small area of the sky
at once astronomers are able to get incredibly detailed and surreal images of the cosmos and all
the mystical objects that inhabit it with us you could point it somewhere random and you would see
stars and galaxies and objects out there that had never been seen before this year has been another
great year for the hubble telescope here is a recap of some of the best photos shot this year
in the sky with diamonds in this picture we can see the aftermath of two doomed stars that are
located nearly 15 000 light years away this nebula is known as the necklace nebula and
is part of the constellation sagitta which is the arrow this nebula was produced by two stars that
were roughly the size of the sun orbiting each other tightly once they were trapped in orbit
the larger star expanded and engulfed the smaller one once swallowed the smaller star
continued to orbit within the larger one which eventually led to the larger star rotating
so fast that its mass was spun outwards creating the nebula the bright spots that we see around
the ring making this nebula appear like a necklace are actually the locations of dense clumps of gas
for filter fusion in this next image we are looking at the galaxy named
ncg7329 located 149 million light years away residing in the constellation of chicana
astronomers have observed that galaxies come in many shapes and sizes this one happens to be a
spiral galaxy which is the same type of galaxy as our own milky way in spiral galaxies like this the
arms extend out into the universe while closer to the center they spiral inwards towards the center
in the center of these galaxies is a super massive black hole whose gravitational pull helps hold
this massive structure together a flash of light now we are looking at a planetary nebula able
78 which is 5 000 light years away from earth located in the constellation cygnus also known
as the swan when stars with masses a bit bigger than our own sun reach the end of their life and
begin to collapse to form white hot dwarf stars they will throw off their outer layers of matter
this matter will spread and form an elaborate cloud of gas which is what we see as a planetary
nebula this planetary nebula is an unusual type due to it being created by a so-called born-again
star which has led to the irregular shell and the filaments of light that are seen in this image
cosmic silver lining this image shows us the emissions from the nebula ngc 2313 more than
3 700 light years away it shows a bright star v565 surrounded by four prominent diffraction
spikes that make the star appear to be at the center of a cross the silvery veil of gas and
dust appears as a fan moving out from the nebula on the right half of the emissions is tinted red
due to it being obscured by a dense cloud of dust a dangerous dance we can see two interacting
spiral galaxies in this image that are intertwined together their collective name is arp91 this is
taking place over 100 million light years away from us these two galaxies are merging into one
through galactic cannibalization where the bigger galaxy will draw in the smaller galaxy
as the two galaxies merge there will be violent events with collisions of stars and planets
as well as forces sending the stars and planets of each galaxy to be sent out into the void the
combination of two spiral galaxies is thought to lead to the creation of elliptical galaxies which
have an elliptical three-dimensional shape these two galaxies will continue this dangerous dance
becoming one galaxy for hundreds of millions of years before they come to rest as a single galaxy
on clusters and constellations this is an amazing picture that shows thousands of stars
in addition to the globular cluster eso 520-21 which is a densely packed collection of stars
we can see it in the center of this image as a cluster with a roughly spherical shape images
like this can be challenging to get due to the sheer amount of gas and dust that collects in
the dense areas of the universe absorbing much of the starlight in that area this cluster of
stars is near the center of the milky way in the constellation office interestingly
this constellation was one of the four dozen constellations that egyptian astronomers had
named by the second century one of a pair this image here shows us the spiral galaxy known as ngc
1317 that lives within the constellation fornax that sits over 50 million light years from us
the spiral arms are easily visible in this image within the debris cloud that makes up
the outer layers of this galaxy in the bottom of the galaxy we can see a bright star with a
cross diffraction pattern around it this star is actually from our own galaxy the milky way
and sets right in our view of this galaxy to the left of this star we can see an elongated red dot
this red dot is actually another galaxy that exists much further away than ngc 1317
this is just another example of how massive our universe really is and objects that appear
small may be massive galaxies that are just extremely far away astronomy in action this
next picture shows us the image of a herbic hero object called hh111 captured by hubble a herbic
hero object is an object that forms when active new stars expel jets of fast-moving ionized gas
that are extremely narrow the ejected gas is so hot that its atoms have lost the bonds with their
electrons which in turn gives the gas a very large electric charge once these jets of charged gas
collide with clouds of gas and dust that linger around newly formed stars herbic hero objects are
created the energy from those collisions create these beautiful nebulous areas around the new star
an interstellar distributor here is another image of a planetary nebula this one is named eso455-10
and lies within the constellation of scorpius the scorpion this nebula was created from the
death of its parent star during the death of the star its remaining matter is blown out
and scattered out into space where it creates beautiful nebulae like this one seen here this
nebula has taken on the shape of an oblate shell and is symmetrical due to its interaction with the
local matter and radiation between the other stars nebulae like this are thought by astronomers to be
the source for many of the heavier metal elements some of these heavier elements are created in the
center of stars while they are still alive while some are produced in the star's explosive death
return to the vale nebula another of the most beautiful pictures taken by hubble telescope
is this one of a gorgeous nebula known as the vale nebula which is located about two thousand and one
hundred light years away this nebula lies within the constellation of cygnus which is also known
as the swan we can now see how the ionized gas spreads out in the delicate threads and filaments
in this image these threads and filaments that make up the nebula are primarily a type of ionized
oxygen that shows up as blue in the image as well as ionized nitrogen that shows up red here this
nebula was formed around 10 000 years ago after the death of a massive star the parent star to
this nebula was roughly 20 times the mass of our sun and ended its life in a supernova event
even one of the most destructive events in the universe can lead to the creation of some of
the most beautiful objects in the universe the hubble space telescope has given us some of the
most iconic images of space that help define our place in the universe even 31 years after
its launch it still produces breathtaking in all inspiring images although the hubble telescope may
be reaching the end of its life in space nasa is going to send a new telescope to replace it
and hopefully give us a deeper more detailed look at the universe that we all live in if you watched
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