NASA

While watching the film sunshine with a friend the other day i remembered a very embarrassing fact about myself from childhood. Instead of aspiring to be a Britney Spears (Thank god) or a vet, i spent my childhood wanting to be an astronaut. In fact, i used to write to NASA frequently to get information on what space missions they were doing or new things they had discovered, to which they would reply very kindly with little information packs. I even used to collect the daily pictures from newspapers showing the shape of the crescent of moon that night. Well anyway, instead of droning on about how odd i was and how many friends i had, tonight I discovered these pictures taken of space by the Hubble Telescope.

The Hubble Telescope was put into orbit in 1990 and in its first 15 years it took around 700,000 images and has helped scientists around the world to understand 'space' more and more. It has helped with the understanding of the births of stars, the death of stars, black holes, and galaxies.

Not only has it helped with science and the understanding of whats beyond this world, but it has created some of the most beautiful and exotic pictures possible that we are unable to see from bare eyes.

Maybe i chose the wrong career path and should consider taking up my childhood dream...