You owe it to yourself to view these ten spectacular images, all but one of them taken by the Hubble telescope. This series of images was featured in Discover Magazine. I find myself imagining what Galileo himself would have said if he had been able to see these images. Or how Edwin Hubble (1889 – 1953) would have reacted. These are truly billion dollar pictures. Below, the Spindle Galaxy:
I just can't get enough of those Hubble images. http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/