Awesome Space photos


	Awesome Space photos

Richclips777

6-17-2009 2:13 PM

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star photos, space photos, nebulae

Richclips777 says:

Amazing stuff

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6-17-2009 3:33 PM

tanyamm

Just imagine how cool it would be if we could actually look up into the night sky and see those things as they look in the pictures.

6-17-2009 6:11 PM

ofcapri

Awesome pictures! What a great thing the Hubble Telescope is! It will only get better now they repaired it and upgraded it!

6-17-2009 8:27 PM

debbyski

Thanks Rich.

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