Carina Nebula ~ Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)
Carina Nebula, NGC 3372 ~ Credit: NASA/N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley) and NOAO/AURA/NSF
Carina Nebula ~ Credit for Hubble Image: NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Credit for CTIO Image: N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley) and NOAO/AURA/NSF
Carina Nebula ~ Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)
Supernova remnant from SN 1006 ~ Credit: NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI); Science Credit, Radio: NRAO/AUI/NSF GBT+VLA 1.4 GHz mosaic (Dyer, Maddalena and Cornwell, NRAO); X-ray: NASA/CXC/Rutgers/G. Cassam-Chenai and J. Hughes et al., and Optical: F.Winkler/Middlebury College and NOAO/AURA/NSF; and DSS
Starburst cluster in the Carina Nebula ~ Credit: NASA, ESA, R. O’Connell (University of Virginia), F. Paresce (National Institute for Astrophysics, Bologna, Italy), E. Young (Universities Space Research Association/Ames Research Center), the WFC3 Science Oversight Committee, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
The Tarantula Nebula ~ Credit: NASA/ESO, J. Alves (Calar Alto, Spain), and B. Vandame and Y. Beletski (ESO)
Vast canyon of dust and gas in the Orion Nebula ~ Credit: NASA, G. Bacon, L. Frattare, Z. Levay, and F. Summers (STScI/AURA)
NGC 1068, one of the nearest and brightest galaxies contains a rapidly growing supermassive black hole. Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/ MIT/C.Canizares, D.Evans et al), Optical (NASA/STScI), Radio (NSF/ NRAO/VLA)
Jupiter’s New Red Spot ~ Credit: M. Wong and I. de Pater (University of California, Berkeley)
Jupiter, the largest planet ~ Credit: NASA, ESA
Jupiter and its largest moon ~ Credit: NASA, ESA, and E. Karkoschka (University of Arizona)
Carina Nebula Details: The Caterpillar ~ Credit for Hubble Image: NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Credit for CTIO Image: N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley) and NOAO/AURA/NSF
Cat’s Eye Nebula ~ Credit: NASA, ESA, HEIC, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: R. Corradi (Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, Spain) and Z. Tsvetanov (NASA)
Cassiopeia, A supernova ~ Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration, CXC/SAO/JPL-Caltech/Steward/O. Krause et al., and NRAO/AUI
The Bug Nebula ~ Credit: NASA, ESA and A.Zijlstra (UMIST, Manchester, United Kingdom)
“Light Echo” Illuminates Dust Around Supergiant Star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon). Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)
Barred Spiral Galaxy, NGC 6217 ~ Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team
Stellar Demise in Planetary Nebula NGC 6302 ~ Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team
The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light-years from Earth, are colliding. Credit: NASA, ESA, SAO, CXC, JPL-Caltech, and STScI
Spiral galaxy NGC 3982 is located about 68 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: A. Riess (STScI)
Whirlpool Galaxy, spiral galaxy M51 ~ Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Regan and B. Whitmore (STScI), and R. Chandar (University of Toledo)
Whirlpool Galaxy, spiral galaxy M51 ~ Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273. The larger of the spiral galaxies, known as UGC 1810, has a disk that is distorted into a rose-like shape by the gravitational tidal pull of the companion galaxy below it, known as UGC 1813. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
A kind of supernova called a Type Ia created a remnant named SNR 0509-67.5, which lies 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy. Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, SAO, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and J. Hughes (Rutgers University)
The Crab Nebula ~ Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University)
Heavyweight of the Leo Triplet ~ Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin and Robert Gendler
Bubbles And Baby Stars ~ Credit: NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain)
Star-forming region NGC 2467 is a vast cloud of gas, mostly hydrogen, that serves as an incubator for new stars. Credit: NASA, ESA and Orsola De Marco (Macquarie University)
Galaxy NGC 4911 in the Coma Cluster, a collection of almost 1,000 galaxies. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Supernova 1987A Trace Shock Wave ~ Credit: NASA, ESA, K. France (University of Colorado, Boulder), and P. Challis and R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Lagoon Nebula ~ Credit: NASA, ESA
Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 lies 46 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear). Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration; Acknowledgment: M. Crockett and S. Kaviraj (Oxford University, UK), R. O’Connell (University of Virginia), B. Whitmore (STScI), and the WFC3 Scientific Oversight Committee
This bubble of gas, called SNR 0509-67.5, is the remnant of a supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy about 160,000 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: J. Hughes (Rutgers University)
The dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 is ablaze with young stars and gas clouds. It is located about 10 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs). Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration
Time-lapse picture of supersonic jets of gas from newly formed stars ~ Credit: NASA, ESA, and P. Hartigan (Rice University)
The bipolar star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106, looks like a celestial snow angel. Twin lobes of super-hot gas, the “wings” in this image, stretch outward from the central star. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Eta Carinae, a binary star system, and the Homunculus Nebula ~ Credit: ESA/NASA
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