Today's Pictures: Latest Images From Hubble’s New Camera Jubilant astronomers unveiled April 30, 2002 spectacular views of the universe as captured by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope's new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The Cone Nebula, M17 is pictured in this NASA handout photo. (Nasa/Reuters). The new camera captured these images of what looks a bit like a nightmare sea monster, rearing up out of red waves. In reality it is only a massive pillar of gas and dust known as the Cone Nebula, a relatively nearby feature at 2,500 light-years’ distance.   Internet links: Main Hubble Site Nasa Back to CellNEWS
The dimmest, most faded old stars, glimpsed by the Hubble Space Telescope, offered confirmation that the universe is just under 14 billion years of age, scientists said on April 24, 2002. This is an artist's concept of the early formative years of our Milky Way galaxy, circa 12.7 billion years ago. That long ago, the majestic spiral arms of our galaxy had not yet formed; the sky was a sea of globular star clusters. The bright blue star cluster at center left is among hundreds of primeval globular star clusters that came together to build up the galaxy. At right of center, the hub of the galaxy is beginning to form. Lanes of dark dust encircle a young supermassive black hole. An extragalactic jet of high-speed material beams into space from the young black hole, which is engorging itself on stars, gas and dust. A string of supernova explosions from the most massive stars in the cluster creates pink bubbles of hot gas around each star cluster. Back to CellNEWS	Repair mission to Hubble telescope.
	The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), the newest camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, has captured this image, taken april 7, 2002, of a spectacular pair of galaxies engaged in a celestial dance of cat and mouse or, in this case, mouse. A couple of long-tailed galaxies some 300 million light-years away appeared to be warily circling one another, so astronomers nicknamed them "The Mice." More than celestial rodents, these two galaxies are destined to merge into one massive galaxy, NASA researchers said. They may also foretell the eventual fate of the Milky Way galaxy, which contains Earth. Computer simulations indicate the Milky Way is likely to collide in several billion years with its nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy.

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