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Hubble Telescope Images

Posted by michael on from the desktop-backgrounds-anyone? dept.

pillageplunder writes: "A story in today's (13 Apr 01) Washington Post provides a link to the Hubble telescope repository for images taken through the Hubble. In a word, BREATHTAKING! Story link here. Link to actual Website here." Oddly enough, looking through our story archive we've posted a number of stories with Hubble photos that came from here, but never just said, hey, here's the whole archive. Well, here it is.

4 comments

  1. This isn't the complete archive by PD · · Score: 2

    You need to look here to find a whole lot more.

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    1. Re:This isn't the complete archive by Chris+Tucker · · Score: 2

      So PD sez:

      "You need to look here to find a whole lot more. "

      Ah, but the Hubble Heritage site chooses images based upon beauty and esthetics.

      And, they also take requests as to where to point the Hubble.

      These pictures also make wonderful desktop images or wallpaper.

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  2. Still more by cluening · · Score: 2

    Of course, if you really want gobs upon gobs of astronomy related pictures, the place to go is the Astronomy Picture of the Day. 'tis a great source of wallpaper images...

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  3. Hubble Pics by Cheese_isgood · · Score: 1

    Here is a link to some other hubble pics!

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