Supernova (SN 2002dd) in the Hubble Deep Field -- 1995
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of HDF.
Close-Up of the Helix Nebula
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of Helix Nebula, NGC 7293.
Comet-like Filaments Along the Inner Rim of the Helix Nebula's Gas Ring
This cropped version of the Helix Nebula mosaic shows cometary-filaments embedded along a portion of the inner rim of the nebula's red and blue gas ring. At a distance of 650 light-years, the Helix is one of the nearest planetary nebulae to Earth. The composite picture is a seamless blend of...
Close-Up of the Helix Nebula
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of Helix Nebula, NGC 7293.
Close-Up of the Helix Nebula
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of Helix Nebula, NGC 7293.
Close-Up of the Helix Nebula
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of Helix Nebula, NGC 7293.
Light Echo From Star V838 Monocerotis - April 30, 2002
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of V838 Monocerotis.
Light Echo From Star V838 Monocerotis - December 17, 2002
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of V838 Monocerotis.
Light Echo From Star V838 Monocerotis - October 28, 2002
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of V838 Monocerotis.
WIYN Emission Line Image of Dumbbell Nebula
Ground-based image of Dumbbell taken with KPNO WIYN 3.5m telescope in H-alpha, [O III], and [O I] filters. WIYN Dumbbell Nebula Photo Page
Light Echo From Star V838 Monocerotis - September 2, 2002
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of V838 Monocerotis.
Light Echo From Star V838 Monocerotis - May 20, 2002
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of V838 Monocerotis.
Rainbow Image of the Egg Nebula
Resembling a rippling pool illuminated by underwater lights, the Egg Nebula offers astronomers a special look at the normally invisible dust shells swaddling an aging star. These dust layers, extending over one-tenth of a light-year from the star, have an onionskin structure that forms...
The Dumbbell Nebula (M27)
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of Dumbbell Nebula, M27, NGC 6853.
A Blaze of Stars in the Core of Dwarf Galaxy NGC 1705
The central region of the small galaxy NGC 1705 blazes with the light of thousands of young and old stars in this image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. At 17 million light-years away, the individual stars of the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 1705 are out of range of all but the sharp...
Wide View of Giant Radio Jet Coming From Spiral Galaxy 0313-192
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of 0313-192.
Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689
A massive cluster of yellowish galaxies, seemingly caught in a red and blue spider web of eerily distorted background galaxies, makes for a spellbinding picture from the new Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. To make this unprecedented image of the cosmos,...
Close-Up of M27, the Dumbbell Nebula
An aging star's last hurrah is creating a flurry of glowing knots of gas that appear to be streaking through space in this close-up image of the Dumbbell Nebula, taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The Dumbbell, a nearby planetary nebula residing more than 1,200 light-years away, is...
Scientists Find Faint Objects with Hubble that May Have Completed the Universe's 'Dark Ages'
Researchers at Arizona State University using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope believe they are seeing the conclusion of the cosmic epoch where the young galaxies started to shine in significant numbers. This marks a time when the so-called "Dark Ages" of the universe was completed, about 13...
Close-up of 0313-192
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of 0313-192.
Quasar 3C 273
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of 3C 273.
Nearby Quasar 3C 273
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of 3C 273.
Face-On, False Light Image of Dust Disk Around Star HD141569
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of HD141569.
Dust Disk Around 5-Million-Year-Old Star HD141569
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of HD141569.
Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of Abell 1689.
Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of Abell 1689.
Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of Abell 1689.
Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of Abell 1689.
Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of Abell 1689.
Galaxy Cluster Abell 1689
A 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of Abell 1689.
An Old Star Gives Up the Ghost
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has recently obtained images of the planetary nebula NGC 6369. This object is known to amateur astronomers as the "Little Ghost Nebula," because it appears as a small, ghostly cloud surrounding the faint, dying central star. NGC 6369 lies in the direction of the...
'Double Bubble' of Gas and Dust in the Large Magellanic Cloud
A unique peanut-shaped cocoon of dust, called a reflection nebula, surrounds a cluster of young, hot stars in this view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The "double bubble," called N30B, is inside a larger nebula. The larger nebula, called DEM L 106, is embedded in the Large Magellanic...
Combined X-Ray and Optical Images of the Crab Nebula
A composite image of the Crab Nebula showing the X-ray (blue), and optical (red) images superimposed. The size of the X-ray image is smaller because the higher energy X-ray emitting electrons radiate away their energy more quickly than the lower energy optically emitting electrons as they move.
Spiral Galaxy NGC 4319 and Quasar Markarian 205
Appearances can be deceiving. In this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, an odd celestial duo, the spiral galaxy NGC 4319 [center] and a quasar called Markarian 205 [upper right], appear to be neighbors. In reality, the two objects don't even live in the same city. They are separated by ...
Seyfert's Sextet: Four Colliding Galaxies, and Two Bystanders
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing a grouping of galaxies engaging in a slow dance of destruction that will last for billions of years. The galaxies are so tightly packed together that gravitational forces are beginning to rip stars from them and distort their shapes. Those same...
Gomez's Hamburger: A Sun-Like Star Near the End of Its Life
Hold the pickles; hold the lettuce. Space is serving up giant hamburgers. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a photograph of a strange object that bears an uncanny resemblance to a hamburger. The object, nicknamed Gomez's Hamburger, is a sun-like star nearing the end of its life. It...
Ring of Hot Blue Stars Pinwheels Around Yellow Nucleus of Hoag's Object Galaxy
A nearly perfect ring of hot, blue stars pinwheels about the yellow nucleus of an unusual galaxy known as Hoag's Object. This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures a face-on view of the galaxy's ring of stars, revealing more detail than any existing photo of this object. The...
Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A (Unannotated)
A 2002 Hubble Space Telescope image of Cassiopeia A, Cas A.
Globular Cluster M15
A 2002 Hubble Space Telescope image of M15.
Globular Cluster M31 G1
A 2002 Hubble Space Telescope image of M31 G1.
ACS Image of KBO "Quaoar"
Sum of 16 exposures registered on the KBO.
POX 186: A Tiny Galaxy is Born
The distorted shape of this tiny object, called POX 186, is evidence that it is a dwarf galaxy in the process of formation. This image, obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows the bluish-white glow of newborn stars at the galaxy's core, and an arch of stars (at right). Both features...
ACS Images of KBO "Quaoar"
Composite of 16 separate exposures resulting in the trail of the KBO against the sky.
Details of Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A
A 2002 Hubble Space Telescope image of Cassiopeia A, Cas A.
The Mice (NGC 4676): Colliding Galaxies Stream Stars and Gas
A 2002 Hubble Space Telescope image of The Mice, NGC 4676.
Details of Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A
A 2002 Hubble Space Telescope image of Cassiopeia A, Cas A.
Details of Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A
A 2002 Hubble Space Telescope image of Cassiopeia A, Cas A.
Cassiopeia A: Colorful, Shredded Remains of Old Supernova
Glowing gaseous streamers of red, white, and blue -as well as green and pink -illuminate the heavens like Fourth of July fireworks. The colorful streamers that float across the sky in this photo taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope were created by one of the biggest firecrackers seen to go...
Details of Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A
A 2002 Hubble Space Telescope image of Cassiopeia A, Cas A.
The Retina Nebula: Dying Star IC 4406
A dying star, IC 4406, dubbed the "Retina Nebula" is revealed in this month's Hubble Heritage image. Like many other so-called planetary nebulae, IC 4406 exhibits a high degree of symmetry; the left and right halves of the Hubble image are nearly mirror images of the other. If we could...
Close-Up of Edge-On Galaxy NGC 4013
A 2002 Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 4013.
Possible Ring of New Stars in Edge-On Galaxy NGC 4013
A 2002 Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 4013.
Tumultuous Collision Between Four Galaxies (IRAS 19297-0406)
Two powerful cameras aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope teamed up to capture the final stages in the grand assembly of galaxies. The photograph, taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the revived Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), shows a tumultuous...
Edge-On Galaxy NGC 4013
A 2002 Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 4013.
Gaseous Streamers from Nebula N44C Flutter in Stellar Breeze
Resembling the hair in Botticelli's famous portrait of the birth of Venus, softly glowing filaments stream from a complex of hot young stars. This image of a nebula, known as N44C, comes from the archives of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST). It was taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera...
Edifice of Gas and Dust in the Cone Nebula
A 2002 Hubble Space Telescope image of Cone Nebula, NGC 2264.
Dense Gas and Dust Beyond the Outer Layers of the Cone Nebula
A 2002 Hubble Space Telescope image of Cone Nebula, NGC 2264.
The Omega Nebula (Swan Nebula/M17)
A 2002 Hubble Space Telescope image of Omega Nebula, Swan Nebula, M17.
The Cone Nebula (NGC 2264)
A 2002 Hubble Space Telescope image of Cone Nebula, NGC 2264.
Rich Background of Galaxies Behind the Tadpole Galaxy
A 2002 Hubble Space Telescope image of UGC 10214 , The Tadpole Galaxy.
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