Hubble
May 16 2009, Piyush

Thierry Legault, a French engineer, known for taking pictures of space from his back garden in Paris, captures a unique event, an extraordinary image of the Atlantis Space Shuttle and the Hubble Telescope speeding across the sun. The amateur...

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In this image provided by NASA shows the very deep image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and released Thursday Feb. 5, 2009 shows the spiral galaxy NGC-4921 along with a spectacular backdrop of more distant galaxies. It was created from a..