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I’m Michael Shara , an astronomer at the American Museum of Natural History. I work with incredible pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope . which orbits Earth outside its atmosphere. The Hubble captures crystal-clear pictures of the universe because the blurring effects of the atmosphere doesn’t interfere.
![Hubble telescope next to a school bus showing similar size of both](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/amnh/images/explore/ology-images/astronomy/cosmic-connections/bus_hubble_comparison/2997278-2-eng-US/bus_hubble_comparison_full_495.png 480w,/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/amnh/images/explore/ology-images/astronomy/cosmic-connections/bus_hubble_comparison/2997278-2-eng-US/bus_hubble_comparison_full_990.png 480w,/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/amnh/images/explore/ology-images/astronomy/cosmic-connections/bus_hubble_comparison/2997278-2-eng-US/bus_hubble_comparison_full_1468.png 480w,/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/amnh/images/explore/ology-images/astronomy/cosmic-connections/bus_hubble_comparison/2997278-2-eng-US/bus_hubble_comparison_full_1980.png 480w,/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/amnh/images/explore/ology-images/astronomy/cosmic-connections/bus_hubble_comparison/2997278-2-eng-US/bus_hubble_comparison_full_2475.png 480w)
The Hubble Space Telescope
(It's as big as a school bus)
Here are eight pictures from the Hubble.
Can you guess what they are?
![The Cygnus Loop, a large supernova remnant.](/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/amnh/images/explore/ology-images/astronomy/cosmic-connections/01_cygnusloop/2961444-1-eng-US/01_cygnusloop_full_495.jpg 495w,/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/amnh/images/explore/ology-images/astronomy/cosmic-connections/01_cygnusloop/2961444-1-eng-US/01_cygnusloop_full_990.jpg 990w,/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/amnh/images/explore/ology-images/astronomy/cosmic-connections/01_cygnusloop/2961444-1-eng-US/01_cygnusloop_full_1468.jpg 1400w,/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/amnh/images/explore/ology-images/astronomy/cosmic-connections/01_cygnusloop/2961444-1-eng-US/01_cygnusloop_full_1980.jpg 1400w)
Look at these colorful ribbons. What do you think they are?
entrance into a wormhole
streams of radiation from galaxies forming
glowing gas from an exploding star
Image Credits:
Photos: Choice A: courtesy of JPL/Caltech and NASA; Choice B: courtesy of R. Williams, the HDF Team (STScI); and NASA; Choice C: courtesy of B. Whitmore (STScI); F. Schweizer (DTM); and NASA; Choice D: courtesy of L. Ferrarese (Johns Hopkins University) and NASA; Choice E: courtesy of HST, WFPC 2, Jeff Hester and NASA; Choice F: courtesy of Bruce Balick (U. Washington); Vincent Icke (Leiden U. of the Netherlands); Choice G: courtesy of NASA, Voyager 2; Choice H: AURA/NOAO/NSF