Hubble returns. Nasa: 8 new images since servicing mission in May 2009

Stunning pictures! <a href="http://internal.hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2009/25/image/a/" rel="nofollow">http://internal.hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2...</a><p>I found a better page for viewing the images, not quite as painful as the Wired method (Next... Next...).

Pictures like these bother me because I don't know which have been manipulated (brightness, contrast, color, etc), for public consumption or to highlight certain features for study. Anybody know if there are unaltered images from Hubble? I'm talking about the true visible light spectrum ones (if there are any).

Images like these always bring up that Brother Cavil's (from BSG - <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407362/quotes" rel="nofollow">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407362/quotes</a>) line: "I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to - I want to smell dark matter! (...) And feel the wind of a supernova flowing over me!"<p>I don't know about you, but it's deeply moving for me.

the pictures with the hundreds of galaxies shown is the real kicker, you talk about sizing one's self up instantly.<p>amazing, i'm glad we have programs like this. I can say being in my 20's i'm actually pretty sad too have missed the excitement of the apollo program's in the 60's and 70's. i can only hope i get to witness similar events in my lifetime.

Few things make me feel palpable joy like this.