The icy blue wings of Hen 2-437
Located within the faint northern constellation of Vulpecula (The Fox), Hen 2-437 was first identified in 1946…
Hubble space telescope
Into the storm
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Hubble image of Kleinmann-Low Nebula
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NGC 6334, The Cat’s Paw Nebula
NGC 6334 is one of the most active areas of massive star formation in our…
A rare radio galaxy
A striking orange and blue streak fills this new image from the NASA’s Hubble Space…
A 340-million pixel starscape from Paranal
The very colourful Rho Ophiuchi and Antares region features prominently to the right, as well…
Sombrero Galaxy M104
With an apparent magnitude of 8, the Sombrero galaxy is beyond the limit of…
Swirling blue arms shimmer in this galaxy
The bright blue spots along its arms signal star clusters that are held together by…
A rosy barred spiral galaxy
The pinkish-red regions line the galaxy’s spiral arms and signal ionized hydrogen gas, which are…
In this galaxy, colours tell a story
Although barred galaxies usually see “a burst of star formation followed by a slow decay,”…
A supermassive black hole dwells at the center of this galaxy
The supermassive black hole at the centre of NGC 6951 is surrounded by a “circumnuclear…
Portrait of a Globular Cluster
Hubble used both its Advanced Camera For Surveys and its Wide Field Camera 3 in this observation, taking advantage…
The Eagle Nebula
The Eagle Nebula, also known as the Star Queen Nebula or Messier 16 (M16 for…
Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) left astronomers feeling festive recently as it allowed them…
PIA15985: Hubble Captures View of ‘Mystic Mountain’
This craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre landscape from…
NGC 6960: The Witch’s Broom Nebula
Blasted out in the cataclysmic explosion, the interstellar shock wave plows through space, sweeping up…
Hubble view of Messier 106
This image combines Hubble observations of Messier 106 with additional information captured by amateur astronomers…
WFC3 visible image of the Carina Nebula
Taken in visible light, the image shows the tip of the three-light-year-long pillar, bathed in…
Mystic Mountain in Infrared
Within the tempestuous Carina Nebula lies “Mystic Mountain.” This three-light-year-tall cosmic pinnacle, imaged by the Hubble…
Mystic mountains visible light
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