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Astronomers Select Top Ten Most Amazing Pictures Taken by Hubble Space Telescope in Last 16 Years
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Hubble telescope’s top ten greatest space photographs
![](http://content2.clipmarks.com/image_cache/venushugstress/512/C101E8B3-510F-44C1-88C7-1CDF8FF424A5.jpg)
The Sombrero Galaxy - 28 million light years from Earth
![](http://content2.clipmarks.com/image_cache/venushugstress/512/9BA89165-1CDD-42E8-A6D2-F8FA6E3BB945.jpg)
The Ant Nebula, a cloud of dust and gas whose technical name is Mz3, resembles
![](http://content2.clipmarks.com/image_cache/venushugstress/512/3DECC4C0-442F-4F28-AE21-6B40DD3D4B17.jpg)
In third place is Nebula NGC 2392, called Eskimo because it looks like a face
face surrounded by a furry hood.
![](http://content2.clipmarks.com/image_cache/venushugstress/512/A8C5C7F4-41FD-4672-9BF1-1E257709FC1E.jpg)
At four is the Cat’s Eye Nebula
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The Hourglass Nebula, 8,000 light years away
![](http://content2.clipmarks.com/image_cache/venushugstress/512/3957E55D-1AA6-447F-90AA-280874C7AB90.jpg)
In sixth place is the Cone Nebula. The part pictured here is 2.5 light years in
years in length (the equivalent of 23 million return trips to the Moon)
![](http://content2.clipmarks.com/image_cache/venushugstress/512/AFB3D12B-7961-43EF-A873-289BA8279EF9.jpg)
The Perfect Storm, a small region in the Swan Nebula, 5,500 light years away
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Starry Night, so named because it reminded astronomers of the Van Gogh painting.
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The glowering eyes from 114 million light years away are the swirling cores of two merging galaxies called NGC 2207
![](http://content2.clipmarks.com/image_cache/venushugstress/512/58B54EEA-B25B-439B-AC60-3B1AD70960F6.jpg)
The Trifid Nebula. A ’stellar nursery’, 9,000 light years from here, it is where new stars are being born.