Unfortunately, however, there is virtually no text to explain the images. Thus every photographic page in this book offers us an opportunity to gaze into a different and violent cosmic event - not bad for a picture book! The Hubble has already helped answer many profound questions about the past and future of our universe, and will pose even more. There are even suggestions of the dark energy that still puzzles cosmologists. To astronomers, of course, the Hubble has provided far more than pictures, for each image reveals details of phenomena that have long puzzled astrophysicists on Earth: panoplies of new-forming stars, collisions of galaxies far distant from our own, and stellar explosions, or supernovae, that could harbor black holes in their hearts.
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