A handout photo from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope dated 27 July 2009, released on 09 September 2009 with a number of other photos to illustrate the newest imagery from the latest equipment installed by NASA astronauts in May 2009, during the servicing mission to upgrade and repair the 19-year-old Hubble telescope. What resemble dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit. A dying star that was once about five times the mass of the Sun is at the center of this fury. EPA/NASA HANDOUT
A handout photo from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope dated 15 July 2009, released on 09 September 2009 with a number of other photos to illustrate the newest imagery from the latest equipment installed by NASA astronauts in May 2009, during the servicing mission to upgrade and repair the 19-year-old Hubble telescope. The image reveals a small region inside the massive globular cluster Omega Centauri, which boasts nearly 10 million stars. Globular clusters, ancient swarms of stars united by gravity, are the homesteaders of our Milky Way galaxy. The stars in Omega Centauri are between 10 billion and 12 billion years old. The cluster lies about 16,000 light-years from Earth. EPA/NSASA
A composite handout photo from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope dated 16 July 2009, released on 09 September 2009 with a number of other photos to illustrate the newest imagery from the latest equipment installed by NASA astronauts in May 2009, during the servicing mission to upgrade and repair the 19-year-old Hubble telescope. The galaxy cluster Abell 370, nearly 5 million light years way, is one of the very first galaxy clusters where astronomers observed the phenomenon of gravitational lensing, where the warping of space by the clusterÕs gravitational field distorts the light from galaxies lying far behind it. This is manifested as arcs and streaks in the picture, which are the stretched images of background galaxies. EPA/NASA
A handout photo from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope made on 13 June and 08 July 2009, released on 09 September 2009 with a number of other photos to illustrate the newest imagery from the latest equipment installed by NASA astronauts in May 2009, during the servicing mission to upgrade and repair the 19-year-old Hubble telescope. This image of barred spiral galaxy NGC 6217 is the first image of a celestial object taken with the newly repaired Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope.The galaxy lies 6 million light-years away in the north circumpolar constellation Ursa Major. EPA/NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team/
A composite handout photo from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope made in July and August 2009, released on 09 September 2009 with a number of other photos to illustrate the newest imagery from the latest equipment installed by NASA astronauts in May 2009, during the servicing mission to upgrade and repair the 19-year-old Hubble telescope.This portrait of StephanÕs Quintet, also known as Hickson Compact Group 92, was taken by the new Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) aboard NASAÕs Hubble Space Telescope. StephanÕs Quintet, as the name implies, is a group of five galaxies. The name, however, is a bit of a misnomer. Studies have shown that group member NGC 7320, at upper left, is actually a foreground galaxy about seven times closer to Earth than the rest of the group. EPA/NASA
