"Finger of God" Bok globule in the Carina Nebula
Informally named the "Finger of God" or "God's Birdie" because of its suggestive shape, this 2 light-year long dark nebula is located within the Carina Nebula.
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Star Cluster NGC 2074 in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Boomerang HST big
Image of Boomerang nebula taken by Hubble Space Telescope
1e16m comparison ten light years bubble nebula
Comparison of sizes of objects with size order of magnitude 1e16m: ten light year radius circle with yellow arrow; Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635), left; Dumbbell Nebula (NGC 6853), right; one light year shell lower ... More
ALMA and Hubble observe LL Pegasi (Potw1710b)
This image is a composite of images made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), both observing the binary star system LL Pegasi. The old star LL P... More
A cosmic concoction in NGC 2467
A colourful star-forming region is featured in this stunning new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 2467. Looking like a roiling cauldron of some exotic cosmic brew, huge clouds of gas and dust are s... More
An Expanding Bubble in Space - GPN-2000-000876
Astronomers, using the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in October and November 1997 and April 1999, imaged the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) with unprecedented clarity. For the ... More
Ant Nebula
The Ant planetary nebula (Menzel 3 or Mz 3). STScI-PRC2001-05 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the ant's body as a pair of fiery lobes protruding from a dying, Sun-like star. Though approachi... More
Carina Nebula Detail
Carina Nebula Details: Great Clouds These great clouds of cold hydrogen resemble summer afternoon thunderheads. They tower above the surface of a molecular cloud on the edge of the nebula. So-called "elephant ... More
Changes in the Crab Nebula-ar
العربية: صُور مُلتقطة بواسطة مقراب هابل الفضائي تُظهر التبدُلات في حجم سديم السرطان.
Chandra-crab
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... More
Carina Nebula in visible light (captured by the Hubble Space Telescope...
Composed of gas and dust, the pictured pillar resides in a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7500 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina. Taken in visible light, th... More
Changes in the Crab Nebula
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Catseye-big
NASA Image, Hubble ST, Cat's Eye Nebula
Carina Nebula (visible and infrared light)
A huge pillar of star birth demonstrate how observations taken in visible and in infrared light by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveal dramatically different and complementary views of an object – the s... More
Carina Nebula in Visible and Infrared
Two alternate Hubble Space Telescope views, comparing visible and infrared photography: Carina Nebula.
Cat's Eye Nebula
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows one of the most complex planetary nebulae ever seen, NGC 6543, nicknamed the "Cat's Eye Nebula." Hubble reveals surprisingly intricate structures including concentr... More
Carina Nebula composite of visible and infrared light (captured by the...
Composed of gas and dust, the pictured pillar resides in a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7500 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina. This image is a composite ... More
Cottoncandynebula
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Cat's Eye Nebula - GPN-2000-000955
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows one of the most complex planetary nebulae ever seen, NGC 6543, nicknamed the "Cat's Eye Nebula." Hubble reveals surprisingly intricate structures including concent... More
Carina Nebula in infrared light (captured by the Hubble Space Telescop...
Composed of gas and dust, the pictured pillar resides in a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7500 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina. Taken in infrared light, t... More
Cone nebula infrared closeup
After astronauts repaired NICMOS - the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer - during the latest Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, astronomers were quick to turn the sophisticated instrumen... More
Comet-like Filaments Along the Inner Rim of the Helix Nebula's Gas Rin...
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 th... More
Crab Nebula (crop)
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Close-up Veil Nebula
This image is a stunning close-up of the Veil Nebula - the shattered remains of a supernova that exploded some 5-10,000 years ago. The image provides a beautiful view of the delicate, wispy structure resulting... More
Egg Nebula
Resembling a rippling pool illuminated by underwater lights, the Egg Nebula (CRL 2688) offers astronomers a special look at the normally invisible dust shells swaddling an aging star. These dust layers, extend... More
Eagle Nebula 4xHubble WikiSky
Four en:Hubble Space Telescope's images of en:Eagle Nebula
Embryonic Stars in the Trifid Nebula
This image composite compares visible-light views with an infrared view from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope of the glowing Trifid Nebula, a giant star-forming cloud of gas and dust located 5,400 light-years aw... More
Eta Carinae
(NASA News Release) A huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds are captured in this stunning NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the supermassive star Eta Carinae. Using a combination of image processing te... More
Eta Carinae 1. NASA public domain image colelction.
The optical image of Eta Carinae's made by the Hubble Space Telescope reveals two spectacular bubbles of gas expanding in opposite directions away from a central bright region at speeds in excess of a million ... More
Boomerang nebula
The Boomerang Nebula is a young planetary nebula and the coldest object found in the Universe so far. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is yet another example of how Hubble's sharp eye reveals surprisin... More
Cygnus Loop Supernova Blast Wave - GPN-2000-000992
This is an image of a small portion of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant, which marks the edge of a bubble-like, expanding blast wave from a colossal stellar explosion, occurring about 15,000 years ago. The H... More
Cats eye nebulab
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Colliding Gas in the Helix Nebula
Colliding Gas in the Helix Nebula Magyar: Egy tipikus kép a Hubble űrtávcső WFPC2 kamerájától, rajta a Helix Nebula egy részlete látható
Butterfly Nebula - GPN-2000-000902
The Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) is back at work, capturing this image of the "butterfly wing"-shaped nebula, NGC 2346. The nebula is about 2,000 light-years away from Ear... More
Eagle Nebula (North-East part) Hubble WikiSky
North-East part of en:Eagle Nebula by en:Hubble Space Telescope; 3.24′ view
Crab Nebula NGC 1952 (composite from Chandra, Hubble and Spitzer)
A star's spectacular death in the constellation Taurus was observed on Earth as the supernova of 1054 A.D. Now, almost a thousand years later, a super dense object — called a neutron star — left behind by the e... More
Example of a bipolar nebula
Example of a Bipolar nebula Original caption: " A recent image of a dying star containing strange, complex structures may help explain the death throes of stars and defy our current understanding of physics... More
Eta Carinae (captured by the Hubble Space Telescope)
Eta Carinae captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Eta Carinae winds&radiation
(NASA News Release) A small portion of the rough-and-tumble neighborhood of swirling dust and gas near one of the most massive and eruptive stars in our galaxy is seen in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image.... More
Gomez Hamburger hst
Protoplanetary Nebula Gomez's Hamburger Public domain photograph related to planest and stars, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gomez Hamburger IRAS 18059-3211 HST
Gomez's Hambureger (IRAS 18059-3211) proto-planetary nebula photograph by Hubble Space Telescope
Glowing Eye of NGC 6751 - GPN-2000-000891
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have obtained images of the strikingly unusual planetary nebula, NGC 6751. Glowing in the constellation Aquila like a giant eye, the nebula is a cloud of gas eje... More
Etacarinae-001
(NASA News Release) A NASA Hubble Space Telescope "natural color" image of the material surrounding the star Eta Carinae, as imaged by the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC-2). The Camera was installed in the... More
Dusty Star
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 on... More
Helix-nebula-detail-hubble
These gigantic, tadpole-shaped objects are probably the result of a dying star's last gasps. Dubbed "cometary knots" because their glowing heads and gossamer tails resemble comets, the gaseous objects probably ... More
Henize 3-1475 by the Hubble Space Telescope
A Hubble Space Telescope photo of the planetary nebula Henize 3-1475. It is located about 18,000 light years away from Earth in the Sagittarius constellation. Astronomers have nicknamed it the 'Garden-sprinkle... More
Henize 3-1333 (HST)
Polski: mgławica planetarna Henize 3-1333English: It’s well known that the Universe is changeable: even the stars that appear static and predictable every night are subject to change. This image from the NASA... More
Henize 3-401 (HST)
Polski: Mgławica planetarna Henize 3-401English: Planetary nebula Henize 3-401
Fragment of NGC 2175
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a violent stellar nursery called NGC 2174, in which stars are born in a first-come-first-served feeding frenzy for survival. The problem is that star formation is... More
HH1 and HH2 imaged by WFPC2
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HST HH47 image
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Hubble - Nebula- Cygnus Loop
This image shows a small portion of a nebula called the "Cygnus Loop." Covering a region on the sky six times the diameter of the full Moon, the Cygnus Loop is actually the expanding blastwave from a stellar c... More
Icon Horsehead-Hubble, public domain photograph
Rising from a sea of dust and gas like a giant seahorse, the Horsehead nebula is one of the most photographed objects in the sky. NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope took a close-up look at this heavenly icon, rev... More
HH 901 and HH 902 in the Carina nebula (captured by the Hubble Space T...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the chaotic activity atop a pillar of gas and dust, three light-years tall, which is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars. The pi... More
Hs-2012-30-Cosmic photo by Hubble Space Telescope
Resembling a Fourth of July skyrocket, Herbig-Haro 110 is a geyser of hot gas from a newborn star that splashes up against and ricochets off the dense core of a cloud of molecular hydrogen. Although the plumes... More
Hubble composite of Eta Carinae
Probing the Last Gasps of Doomed Star Eta Carinae. The spectrum covers approximately 700nm - 760nm in the near infrared. The broard HeI line is from the primary wind, while the narrow forbidden ionised metal... More
Hubble Mystic Mountain
NASA Hubble Space Telescope captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars in a tempestuous stellar n... More
Hubble image of the Ring Nebula (Messier 57)
This new image shows the dramatic shape and colour of the Ring Nebula, otherwise known as Messier 57. From Earth’s perspective, the nebula looks like a simple elliptical shape with a shaggy boundary. However, ... More
Hubble snaps NGC 5189
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope celebrates the holiday season with a striking image of the planetary nebula NGC 5189. The intricate structure of the stellar eruption looks like a giant and brightly coloure... More
Hubble's Sharpest View of the Orion Nebula (16239715270)
This dramatic image offers a peek inside a cavern of roiling dust and gas where thousands of stars are forming. The image, taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, re... More
Hubble5
Bipolar nebula Hubble 5 Polski: Bipolarna mgławica planetarna Hubble 5
Hubble reveals the Ring Nebula’s true shape
In this composite image, visible-light observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are combined with infrared data from the ground-based Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona to assemble a dramatic view of th... More
HubblePAO
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IC3568
Planetary Nebula IC 3568. Français : La nébuleuse planétaire IC 3568.
IC4406
BEAUTY IN THE EYE OF HUBBLE
IRAS 20068+4051
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has used its Advanced Camera for Surveys to peer closely at the strange cloud of gas and dust that envelops a star at a late stage in its life, a short-lived phenomenon know... More
Keyhole Nebula - Hubble 1999
The Keyhole Nebula, within NGC 3372. A mosaic of four April 1999 images by Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2.
JWST HST comparison
Comparison of details of two detail images of NGC 3324. The left is by the James Webb Space Telescope Near Infared Camera in 2022 with colours for one slightly middle infared, four near infared and one slightl... More
Lagoon nebula
Picture from hubble Giant "Twisters" in the Lagoon Nebula
M008 NGC 6523 Lagoon nebula
Messier 8 NGC 6523 Lagoon nebula
Littleghostnebula
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LHA 120-N11 in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Nearly 200 000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. As the Milky Way’s gravity gently tugs on it... More
M2-9 by Hubble
M2-9 by the Hubble Space Telescope.
M15pease1 (HST)
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Location of Detail and ACS Exposures on Full Image
Location of Detail and ACS Exposures on Full Image
Kotkasumu M16 yksityiskohta
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M57 The Ring Nebula
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest view yet of the most famous of all planetary nebulae: the Ring Nebula (M57). In this October 1998 image, the telescope has looked down a barrel of gas cas... More
M27 Knots
Close up detail of knots in planetary nebula Messier 27
N 49 Supernova remnant
Resembling the puffs of smoke and sparks from a summer fireworksdisplay in this image from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, these delicate filaments are actually sheets of debris from a stellar explosion in a ... More
Mystic mountaindddd
Hubble's 20th anniversary image shows a mountain of dust and gas rising in the Carina Nebula. The top of a three-light-year tall pillar of cool hydrogen is being worn away by the radiation of nearby stars, whi... More
N81 in the Small Magellanic Cloud
A NASA Hubble Space Telescope "family portrait" of young, ultra-bright stars nested in their embryonic cloud of glowing gases. The celestial maternity ward, called N81, is located 200,000 light-years away in t... More
M2-9
Bipolar planetary nebula M2-9 Public domain photograph related to planest and stars, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Icon Messier 16 Northwestern, public domain photograph
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has once more turned its attention towards the magnificent Eagle Nebula (Messier 16). This picture shows the northwestern part of the region, well away from the centre, and ... More
MyCn18-crop - Public domain portrait engraving
The Engraved Hourglass Nebula (MyCn18) is a young planetary nebula located about 8,000 light years away. This artificially colorized image was taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 aboard NASA's Hubb... More
Messier 43 HST
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a close-up view of an outer part of the Orion Nebula’s little brother, Messier 43. This nebula, which is sometimes referred to as De Mairan’s Nebula after its disc... More
NGC 1579 The Trifid of the North
Unlike the venomous fictional plants that share its name, the Trifid of the North, otherwise known as the Northern Trifid or NGC 1579, poses no threat to your vision. The nebula’s moniker is inspired by the be... More
Motion in the Crab Nebula (09-2005 to 11-2005)
This time-lapse movie of the Crab Nebula, made from NASA Hubble Space Telescope observations, reveals wave-like structures expanding outward from the "heart" of an exploded star. The waves look like ripples in... More
NGC 3132
NGC 3132 is a striking example of a planetary nebula. This expanding cloud of gas, surrounding a dying star, is known to amateur astronomers in the southern hemisphere as the Eight-Burst or the Southern Ring nebula.
N81 in the Small Magellanic Cloud - GPN-2000-000951
A NASA Hubble Space Telescope "family portrait" of young, ultra-bright stars nested in their embryonic cloud of glowing gases. The celestial maternity ward, called N81, is located 200,000 light-years away in t... More
NGC 2074 composite
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NGC 2467 Hubble WikiSky
NGC 2467 open cluster and emission nebula by Hubble Space Telescope; 3.2′ view
Nebula in Taurus
The little-known nebula IRAS 05437+2502 billows out among the bright stars and dark dust clouds that surround it in this striking image from the Hubble Space Telescope. It is located in the constellation of Ta... More
NGC 2440 by HST
The planetary nebula NGC 2440 as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. Norsk nynorsk: Den planetariske tåka NGC 2440 fotografert av Hubble-teleskopet. Original caption This image, taken by NASA's Hubble... More
NGC 3324 Hubble
This month's three-dimensional-looking Hubble image shows the edge of the giant gaseous cavity within the star-forming region called NGC 3324. The glowing nebula has been carved out by intense ultraviolet radi... More
NGC 346 hydrogen emission (captured by the Hubble Space Telescope)
This image of NGC 346 and its surrounding star formation was taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys using a filter which isolates light emitted by hydrogen gas. Individual images from Hubble's cameras ... More
NGC 5307 (HST, instrument WFPC2)
Planetary nebula NGC 5307. This image is a composite of many separate exposures made by the WFPC2 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. Three filters were used to sample narrow wavelength ranges. The color... More