The Hubble Space Telescope broke free from its terrestrial confines on April 24, 1990 aboard the space shuttle Discovery. In the 20 years since, it has seen near total failure and has brought back some of the most important and astounding images of the Universe humankind has ever seen. In celebration of Hubble's 20 years of service, Nobel Intent has taken a moment to look back at some of the most significant images that the flying observatory has brought us.
I couldn't copy the whole thing with all the pictures, so the link is below. I find some of the pictures so beautiful.