ocr: THE HUBBLE TELESCOPE VIEWS THE UNIVERSE Astronomers looked 8,000 FROM SPACE light-years into the cosmos with the Hubble Space Tele- scope, and it seemed that the eye of God was: staring back. The Etched Hourglass Nebula is actually a: shell of gas expanding from a dying star. In the Helix Nebula - (below) a dying star creates - - - Time knots of gas and sight, dust twice the diameter of our: solar system. Once a rare: thousands of such knots- - and myriad other Exposures cosmic unmatched surprises eye. - are now seen through Hubble's By WILLIAM R. NEWCOTT NATIONAL GEOGRAPIC EDITORIAL STAFF **H ...
