Annual Top 10 Space Photos Selected by the US National Geographic Magazine - Image Section

by hnguangmang on 2008-03-15 21:04:05

One of the Hubble Space Telescope's most beloved cameras suddenly "went on strike" in January, but it still proved its value in 2007 - the remaining cameras took a series of new awe-inspiring photos. On February 13, NASA released this photo showing a dying star - the bright spot near the center of the NGC 2440 nebula is a white dwarf, which once resembled our Sun very much.