Eye of God

This is a real photograph of the Helix Nebula, although it’s technically not a single photograph but rather a composite image formed from several photographs taken by NASA’s orbiting Hubble Space Telescope and a land-based telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. This image was NASA’s “Astronomy Picture of the Day” for 10 May 2003.

The picture’s “Eye of God” appellation is a title coined by an admirer of the photo due to the nebula’s resemblance to a human eye, not something designated by NASA. The nebula is also visible all the time, not merely “once in 3000 years.”

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  1. Lis on August 28th, 2007 7:04 am

    Here’s another picture of the Helix Nebula.
    http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=1445

    Helix Nebula

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