Photos: The best of Google Sky

A tour from the Big Dipper to the stunning Eagle Nebula...

By Gemma Simpson, 28 November 2007 15:16

Through a chance alignment, the Hubble Space Telescope captured a view of a face-on spiral galaxy lying precisely in front of another larger spiral.

Photo credit: Google Earth, Nasa and Space Telescope Science Institute

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  1. 1. Carol Christian/ gSky Team at STScI

    Several tours of HST data have been created. For the one I created, from Space Telescope, the official home of HST, please see http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/gsky/

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