Space Telescope & Cassini Giclees
The Hubble Space Telescope has recently released some distinctly beautiful, high-resolution photos from the new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS.) We are making these available for the first time as giclee prints, individually produced in our gallery. No doubt they will be available soon as offset printed posters, but we can offer them NOW as high-quality prints, with giclee's expanded color gamut and resolution.
See Hubble Site for complete Hubble image catalog, free computer screen wallpaper and news.
The Spitzer Space Telescope is a new infrared-viewing telescope that sees "heat," enabling it to see through dust clouds, and revealing a whole other universe.
The Spitzer home page is HERE
The Cassini-Saturn Spacecraft is the most sophisticated probe in existence. It has made numerous orbits, observations, measurements, and photos of the Saturnian system since its arrival in 2004.The Cassisi home page is HERE
The imaging team leader, Dr. Carolyn Porco is an old friend of the gallery, and hasthe heart and soul of an artist, evidenced by her amazing direction of photography.
 EAGLE NEBULA PILLAR 7000 light years away in the constellation Serpens, north of Scorpio. This is another of the Eagle's ...more EAGLE NEBULA PILLAR (M-16)7000 light years away in the constellation Serpens, north of Scorpio. This is another of the Eagle's "pillars of creation" but with much finer detail, from the dusty base to the blast of ultraviolet light at the top. Brilliant new blue stars shine like Christmas tree lights, while unseen stars illumnate from within and silhouette the column from behind. Read more from hubblesite.org. (Travis Rector, NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage team-STSCi-AURA) See a DETAIL of base
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 BARRED SPIRAL GALAXY NGC 1300 This is a "barred spiral" galaxy, NGC 1300, the largest Hubble image of a complete galaxy. Incredible detail. It is 69 million light years away in ...more BARRED SPIRAL NGC 1300This is a "barred spiral" galaxy, NGC 1300, the largest Hubble image of a complete galaxy. Incredible detail. It is 69 million light years away in Eriadnus, a Southern constellation. Read more from hubblesite.org (Pat Knezek, NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage team-STSCi-AURA) See a DETAIL of nucleus
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 M-51 (THE WHIRLPOOL GALAXY) This celebrated interacting galaxy is 37 million light years away in the constellation Canes Venatici, near the Big Dipper. It is actually a pair o ...more M-51 (THE WHIRLPOOL GALAXY)This celebrated interacting galaxy is 37 million light years away in the constellation Canes Venatici, near the Big Dipper. It is actually a pair of interacting galaxies viewed nearly face on. A lower-angle study is the subject of the Kim Poor print Starcatcher. Read more from hubblesite.org. (S. Beckwith, NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage team-STSCi-AURA)
See a DETAIL of nucleus
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 HELIX NEBULA (The Eye of God) Only 450 light years away in the constellation Aquarius, this long-observed planetary nebula, created from outgassing of a dying star has been imag ...more THE HELIX NEBULA (NGC 7293)The Eye of GodOnly 450 light years away in the constellation Aquarius, this long-observed planetary nebula, created from outgassing of a dying star has been imaged in glorious detail and color by Hubble. Nicknamed "The Eye of God" it spans an area half the size of the moon. Read more from hubblesite.org. (NASA, ESA, C.R. O'Dell (Vanderbilt University), and M. Meixner, P. McCullough) See a DETAIL
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 MOUNTAINS OF CREATION This image is from the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared instrument. This barely visible area is in the Northern constellation Cassiopeia comes to ...more MOUNTAINS OF CREATIONThis image is from the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared instrument. This barely visible area is in the Northern constellation Cassiopeia comes to life in the infrared. The original "Pillars of Creation" in M16 would barely fill the tips of one of these "mountains." Infrared light can look through dusty areas and see infant star formation. Giclee printed on heavy acid-free fine art paper.
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 CONE NEBULA The Cone nebula is actually a pillar of gas and dust. Called the Cone Nebula (NGC 2264) — so named because, in ground-based images, it has a conica ...more THE CONE NEBULAThe Cone nebula is actually a pillar of gas and dust. Called the Cone Nebula (NGC 2264) — so named because, in ground-based images, it has a conical shape — this giant pillar resides in a turbulent star-forming region. This picture, taken by the newly installed Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows the upper 2.5 light-years of the nebula, a height that equals 23 million roundtrips to the Moon. The entire nebula is 7 light-years long. The Cone Nebula resides 2,500 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. Credit:NASA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth (UCSC/LO), M.Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), the ACS Science Team, and ESA Giclee printed on heavy acid-free fine art paper.
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 LIGHT ECHO A photo from the Cassini spacecraft. Saturn and its visible rings are shown in this high polar portrait. The low-angle illumnation shows the fine s ...more POLAR SATURNA photo from the Cassini spacecraft. Saturn and its visible rings are shown in this high polar portrait. The low-angle illumnation shows the fine structure in the rings.
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 CRAB NEBULA The Crab nebula a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese astronomers recorded this violent ev ...more THE CRAB NEBULAThe Crab nebula a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese astronomers recorded this violent event nearly 1,000 years ago in 1054, as did, almost certainly, Native Americans. The orange filaments are the tattered remains of the star and consist mostly of hydrogen. Blue in the filaments in the outer part of the nebula represents neutral oxygen, green is singly-ionized sulfur, and red indicates doubly-ionized oxygen.The rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in the center of the nebula is the dynamo powering the nebula's eerie interior bluish glow. The blue light comes from electrons whirling at nearly the speed of light around magnetic field lines from the neutron star. The neutron star, like a lighthouse, ejects twin beams of radiation that appear to pulse 30 times a second due to the neutron star's rotation. A neutron star is the crushed ultra-dense core of the exploded star. Credit:NASA, ESA, Jeff Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University) Giclee printed on heavy acid-free fine art paper.
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 ORION NEBULA An image from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes looks more like an abstract painting than a cosmic snapshot. It shows the Orion nebula in ...more THE ORION NEBULAAn image from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes looks more like an abstract painting than a cosmic snapshot. It shows the Orion nebula in an explosion of infrared, ultraviolet and visible-light colors. At the heart is a set of four massive stars, called the Trapezium. These are 100,000 times brighter than our sun. The swirls of green were revealed by Hubble's ultraviolet and visible-light detectors. They are hydrogen and sulfur gases heated by intense ultraviolet radiation from the Trapezium's stars. Wisps of red, detected by Spitzer, indicate infrared light from illuminated clouds containing carbon-rich molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Credit: NASA, ESA, T. Megeath (University of Toledo) and M. Robberto (STScI) Giclee printed on heavy acid-free fine art paper.
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Cassini-Saturn Spacecraft Images
 SATURNIAN ECLIPSE An amazing PHOTOGRAPH from the Cassini spacecraft, now in a polar orbit around Saturn and its moons. Dr. Carolyn Porco, the imaging team leader, ha ...more SATURNIAN ECLIPSEAn amazing PHOTOGRAPH from the Cassini spacecraft, now in a polar orbit around Saturn and its moons. Dr. Carolyn Porco, the imaging team leader, had to fight the suits for the opportunity, but as the acknowledged authority on planetary rings, she knew that backlighting the rings would reveal fine and gossamer structures never before seen. The Sun can be seen at about 7:00 on the globe, with the outer atmosphere outlining the orb of Saturn. The extended ring system, with fog-sized particles of dust and water ice are clearly seen.
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 HYPERION A photo from the Cassini spacecraft. Hyperion, an outer moon of Saturn, appears like a sponge or piece of coral, with deep, sharp-edged craters. Sh ...more HYPERIONA photo from the Cassini spacecraft. Hyperion, an outer moon of Saturn, appears like a sponge or piece of coral, with deep, sharp-edged craters. Shaped like a thick hamburger, it is the only moon in the solar system which tumbles in its orbit, and isn't gravitationally locked by its parent planet.
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